2. “Biotechnology is the use
of biological processes,
organisms, or systems to
manufacture products
intended to improve
the quality of human life”
3. Biotechnology is all around us
the invention of turning milk into
cheese, pesticides for agriculture, your
perfume that smells nice all day long,
washing stains out of your clothes with
washing powder
4. Red Green
White Blue
The discliplines of biotechnology
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/biotechnology
5. Red biotechnology involves medical processes such
as getting organisms to produce new drugs, or
using stem cells to regenerate damaged human
tissues and perhaps re-grow entire organs.
Red
6. Green biotechnology applies to agriculture and
involves such processes as the development
of pest-resistant grains or the accelerated
evolution of disease-resistant animals
Green
7. White (also called gray) biotechnology involves
industrial processes such as the production of
new chemicals or the development of new fuels
for vehicles.
White
8. Blue biotechnology, rarely mentioned,
encompasses processes in marine and aquatic
environments, such as controlling the
proliferation of noxious water-borne organisms.
Blue
9. Let´s focus on red
biotechnology
Used in biopharma research for the
development of new or improved medicines
Use of in-house know-how or get contract-based
services from biotech companies/research
groups
10. Let´s focus on red
biotechnology
Used in biopharma research for the development of
new or improved medicines
Use of in-house know-how or get contract-based
services from biotech companies/research groups
In silico or computational means
“performed on computer or via computer simulation”
11. Virtual screening
A computational technique used in drug
discovery to scan large libraries of small
molecules in order to identify those structures
which are most likely to bind to a drug target,
typically a protein receptor or enzyme
12. How to create new drug
treatments
Scientists must identify the molecule
— a target — involved in a disease
13. How to create new drug
treatments
Scientists must identify the molecule
— a target — involved in a disease
Get to know what compound – a lead-
fights against the molecules of the
disease
14. How to create new drug
treatments
Scientists must identify the molecule
— a target — involved in a disease
Get to know what compound – a lead-
fights against the molecules of the
disease
Use the molecules in medicines
15. Lock-key model
You have the lock, we offer the key
The key is the substrate,
the key hole is the active
site and the lock is the
enzyme
Actually it is like
puzzling: finding the
right parts to combine
them
16. Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics forms a big part of biotechnology
Use of computer science, mathematics, and
information theory to organize and
analyze complex biological data, especially
genetic data
Also called biocomputing.
17. Why?
More, faster, better results
Research speeds up
The amount of years usually spent for
research for one new type of drug
treatment, is 10 to 15
New drug treatments will be available at
an earlier rate
