Biotechnologists Make Many Contributions…
To Medicine
- creating new vaccines
- creating new diagnostic tests
- producing antibiotics & drugs
- finding gene therapies
- finding new ways to transplant tissues
To Agriculture
Making Better Crops
- insect- and disease-resistant crops
- more nutritious, better tasting crops
- new products from crops; pharmaceuticals flavors
Breeding Better Animals
- leaner meat
- higher quality milk & cheese
- rapid selection of breeding stock
Keeping Livestock Healthy
- vaccines for disease prevention
- tests for disease diagnosis
- antibiotics and drugs
- animal nutrition silage inoculants improved forage
To Industry
Processing Food
- improving dairy products
- brewing beer & wine
- creating flavors
- creating nutritional supplements
Manufacturing Forest Products
- improving pulp, wood and paper production
To Law Enforcement
- DNA analysis
- analyzing evidence
To The Environment
Cleaning Up the Environment
- using microbes to clean oil spills and toxic wastes
- better sewage treatment
Improving Production & Cutting Pollution
- using fungi to speed the conversion of wood chips to paper pulp
- producing plastics from whey
- producing fuel from plants
- ethanol fuel from microbes
- reducing pollution from farm waste
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