Future of Biotechnology

Biotechnology has, within a relatively short span of time, grown into a comprehensive scientific venture spanning both academic research and commercial application - a transformation the book traces directly to landmark achievements such as the sequencing of the human genome and the genomes of several other important organisms. Building on this foundation, future developments in biotechnology are expected to be significant, and the book frames the biotechnological revolution as comparable in scale to the industrial revolution and the computer revolution before it - each of which reshaped many aspects of everyday life. As techniques such as plant tissue culture continue to mature and combine with genetic engineering, genomics and related technologies, biotechnology's influen …