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Engineering health : how biotechnology changed medicine / edited by Lara Marks.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biomedical engineering.
- Biotechnology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (227 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London, UK : Royal Society of Chemistry, [2018]
- Summary:
- Biotechnology harnesses cellular and biochemical systems to advance knowledge of the molecular cause of disease and to provide new diagnostic tools and more precisely targeted drugs. Within a decade, global investment in medical biotechnology has increased more than ten-fold, resulting in therapies for previously untreatable conditions. But what exactly is biotechnology and what are its origins? What further benefits to human health could it offer in the future? In an accessible style, this book examines how biotechnology tools came to be discovered, how they are being used, and what the future of medicine could look like. Experts trace the development of biotechnologies such as DNA sequencing, gene therapy and monocolonal antibodies explaining how they are applied in medicine to combat disease. Find out about the science behind diagnostic technologies, such as cancer screening and pregnancy tests. Explore how genetic engineering has produced new vaccines. Applying new biotechnologies in medicine is not without great challenges. As medicines shift from small organic molecules to large, complex structures, such as therapeutic proteins, drugs become difficult to make, administer and regulate. This book will intrigue anyone who is interested in medicine and how we have been, and may continue to, engineer better health for ourselves.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Biotechnology-An Ever Expanding Toolbox for Medicine
- Biopharmaceutical Proteins: The Manufacturing Challenge
- Vaccines: The Recombinant Revolution
- Monoclonal Antibodies: A Revolution in the Transformation of Healthcare
- The Changing Fortune of Cancer Immunotherapy
- Gene Therapy: An Evolving Story
- Stem Cells: An Emerging Field for Medicine
- Protein Therapeutics and Blinding Diseases
- Synthetic Biology: A Game Changer?
- Synthetic Biology-Engineering Tomorrow's Medicines.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781839168321
- 1839168323
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