Red Biotechnology

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  • Red Biotechnology
    Is a process which utilizes organisms to improve health care and help the body to fight diseases. It is the branch of modern biotechnology which is utilized in the field of medicine.
  • Medicine
    The field of health and healing that includes nurses, doctors, and various specialists. It covers diagnosis, treatment, prevention of disease, medical research, and many other aspects of health. It promotes and maintain health and well-being.
  • Pathology
    A branch of medical science primarily concerning the cause, origin, and nature of the disease. It involves the examination if tissues, organs, bodily fluids, and autopsies in order to study and diagnose disease.
  • Alzheimer's Disease
    Suffering from dementia or loss of memory, language, problem-solving, and other thinking capabilities that are severe enough to interfere with daily life.
  • Aducanumab
    In the year 2020, a new Biogen Alzheimer's disease drug was developed to sufficiently safe and effective in treating patients with cognitive impairment due to mild to severe Alzheimer's disease.
  • Biotechnology
    the use of artificial methods to modify the genetic material of living organisms or cells to produce novel compounds or to perform new functions. The use of this in medicine are the production of vaccines and antibiotics.
  • Alexander Fleming
    He accidentally discovered the penicillin in 1928. He found out that the fungus Penicillium notatum proved extremely effective at very low concentrations, preventing Staphylococcus growth even when diluted 800 times, and was less toxic than the disinfectants used at the times.
  • Penicillin
    Nicknamed as the "Wonder Drug" because it saved many lives during World War II.
  • Molecular Diagnostics
    diagnose infectious diseases by detecting the presence or absence of pathogen-associated molecules (nucleic acids or protein) in a patient's blood or tissues. It is simple, rapid, relatively inexpensive and have high specificity and sensitivity. It includes the PCR, monoclonal antibodies, and recombinant antigens.
  • Recombinant Vaccines
    the most important medical advance of the last hundred years. Vaccination has resulted in the eradication of polio and small pox, and a dramatic reduction in other infectious diseases.
  • Edwards Jenner
    On May 14, 1796, he took fluid from a cowpox blister and scratched it into the skin of James Phipps, an eight-year old boy. A single blister rose up on the spot, but James soon recovered. On July 1. he inoculated the boy again but this time no disease developed
  • Bioremediation
    Influences the natural biochemical processes of plants or micro-organisms to clean up the environment. It has direct significance in any development activity related to the environment, including water, soil, and air.
  • TWO MAIN TYPES OF POLLUTION THAT THREATENS HEALTH
    Organic waste and Heavy metals
  • Bioinformatics
    The computer hardware and software to store, retrieve and analyze large quantities of biological data. The use of high throughput technologies (DNA Sequencing machines, DNA and RNA microarrays, combinational chemistry, 2d gel electrophoresis, and mass spectrometry) produces large quantities of biological data which plays an important role in the development of medicinal drugs.
  • Sequencing Pathogen genomes
    together with bioinformatics can rapidly accelerate the process of medicinal drug discovery and are important tools in fight agaisnt infetious diseases.
  • Enriched genetically modified crops
    Introducced new genes and new traits into crops that developed more rapidly and more precisely than traditional breeding and also enable the introduction of new genes from different species producing crop fortified with nutritional values vital for good health.
  • Recombinant Therapeutic proteins
    used to treat many non-communicable diseases, and the recombinant technology makes it possible to insert a gene or genes for the therapeutic protein into a suitable organism.
  • Transgenic mammals
    the most attractive source of recombinant therapeutic proteins. These animals secrete recombinant protein in easily-harvested body fluid, such as milk or urine.
  • Tissue nanotransfection
    works by injecting genetic code into skin cells, which turns those skin cells into other types of cells required for treating diseases.
  • CRISPR/Cas9
    utilizes a protein called Cas9, acts like a pair of molecular scissors and can cut DNA. A tool used to edit genomes. It allows scientists to alter DNA and modify gene functions. It also corrects genetic defects, treating diseases, preventing the spread of diseases, and improving crops.
  • Stem Cell Research
    It grows these stem cell in vitro, in a lab setting, and then implanted them back into affected individual's body. This help restore their cognitive acuity, vision, hearing, and other physical features.
  • Stem cell
    Can keep dividing infinitely and have the capacity to differentiate into different types of body cells during the early development of an organism.
  • Gene Therapy
    Is designed to introduce genetic material into cells to compensate for abnormal genes or to make beneficial protein. Introduces a normal copy of the gene to restore the function of a missing or faulty protein.
  • Human Genome Project
    an international scientific research project coordinate by the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Energy and is considered as one of the greatest accomplishments of exploiration in human history. It was officially launched in 1990 with the goal of determining the sequence of nucleotide base pairs that make up human DNA. In April 2003, the researchers announced that they completed a preliminary sequencing of the entire human genome. Because of this, they get understand the blueprint of building a person.
  • Targeted Cancer Therapies
    are drugs that work either by interfering with the function of specific molecules or by only targeting known cancerous cells, in order to minimize damage to healthy cells.
  • 3D visualization and augmented reality for surgery
    Doctors get to view the human body in an entire 3D image through the use of MRI and CT scans. This allows each organ to be precisely projected so that the surgeon can make small, targeted incisions to minimize bodily trauma to the patient.
  • Surgery
    Very brutal for the human body
  • 3D Printed Organs
    Artificial limbs have been in use for centuries. It is an artificially construct internal organs like the organs: the heart, kidney, and liver. Doctors may implant these to individuals.