Medical Biotechnology

The domain of study and research of Biotechnology is gradually becoming superspecialised. Apart from the General Biotechnology, the streams which are getting focus worldwide are (1) Medical Biotechnology, (2) Agricultural Biotechnology and (3) Animal Biotechnology. Out of these three, Medical Biotechnology has become extremely popular and sought after, because of its successful solution of mysteries  which are being found to be quite useful in human healthcare. Pharma companies have started setting up advanced laboratories for research in the field of Medical Biotechnology and this has opened up a completely new vision for drug discovery and other pharma research. 

Application of the knowledge, the principles and the procedures of various branches of Biotechnology to solve problems of human healthcare is popularly known as Medical Biotechnology. Whereas students of MBBS/MD/MS usually come to the field of actual treatment of diseases including surgical intervention in human beings, only a few of them are going to the field of advanced researches in Medical Biotechnology. Therefore, trained human resources are becoming extremely scarce to take care of laboratories for advanced medical and clinical researches at the level of Molecular Biology. Therefore, general science students are specialising first in the general principles of life science, then in the principles of Biotechnology and finally in the field of Medical Biotechnology. At a higher level, the fields are converging and Medical Biotechnology may include the areas of Stem Cell research, Genetic Engineering, Genomics, Proteomics,  Immunology and Drug Discovery etc. 

For greater in-depth knowledge in the field of Medical Biotechnology, information available in internet will be of great help. Students are advised to browse the internet through Google Search with the query “Present and future scopes in Medical Biotechnology”.