Biotechnology – Overview

Biotechnology as a science has enabled a multitude of key discoveries in life sciences, which has changed to a great extent the primary lifestyle of human society. Modern biotechnology provides tremendous scope for developing new products and technologies which finds promising application in environmental sustainability and food security. Several advancements in biotechnology including drug development, regenerative medicine, genetically modified crops and organisms, environmental clean -up, bioprocess technology and nano-biotechnology has made biotechnology a truly global industry. Technological changes and globalization has opened a floodgate of opportunities for the Biotechnology industries and a great deal of international activity has centered on producing advantageous biotechnological innovations for the developing countries. The new challenge ahead of us makes research and development in the field of biotechnology inevitable. To keep pace with this fast growing field the B. E. Biotechnology programme has been introduced at the under graduate level.