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• Red Biotechnology


  A process that utilizes organisms to improve health care and help the body fight diseases. Biotechnology applied in health and medicine
• Alexander Fleming


  Found the Penicillin, an antibiotic
• Alzheimer's Disease


  The most common type of dementia, a progressive disease beginning with mild memory loss and possibly leading to loss of the ability to carry on a conversation and respond to the environment
• Introductory Terms


  • Red Biotechnology
  • Alexander Fleming
  • Alzheimer's Disease
  • Prescription
  • Doctors
  • Nurses
• Molecule


  A set of atoms
• Diagnostics


  A procedure or set of procedures used to identify a disease, condition, or injury. A diagnosis determines the cause of a person's symptoms and signs
• Molecular Diagnostic


  The use of molecules in diagnosing a patient's possible disease or condition

  
• 4 Types of Macromolecules

  • Carbohydrates
  • Proteins
  • Nucleic Acids
  • Lipids
• Examples of Molecular Diagnostic

  • Polymerase-Chain-Reaction
  • Monoclonal Antibodies
  • Prognostic Biomarkers
  • Recombinant Antigens
• Recombinant


  A description that came from "recombination"
• Recombination


  A process where DNA pieces from a distinct DNA combine
• Vaccine


  A biological preparation that provides acquired immunity to prevent outbreaks and diseases
• Recombinant Vaccines


  Vaccines studied and experimented with through recombination

  
• Edward Jenner


  • Founder of vaccines via recombination (smallpox vaccines, cowpox vaccines)
  • Used a child to create a recombinant vaccine

  
• Plasmid


  A ring of double-stranded DNA
• Recombinant Vaccine Creation


  Infected Plasmid + Uninfected Plasmid

  
• Examples of Recombinant Vaccines

  • Hepatitis B Vaccine
  • Smallpox Vaccine
  • Cowpox Vaccine

  
• Bioremediation


  Influences the natural biochemical processes of plants or micro-organisms to clean up the environment

  
• Pollutants


  • Organic Waste
  • Heavy Metals
• All pollutants and contaminants are pollutants, but not all contaminants are pollutants
• Recovery


  The remediating effect of bioremediation (the result)
• Bioinformatics


  The use of 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, combinatorial chemistry, 2D gel electrophoresis, and mass spectrometry)
• Bioinformatics Combination


  The combination of statistics, biology, and computer science

  
• Sequencing


  To create or make a sequence
• Pathogen


  An organism causing the disease to its host
• Genomes


  DNA set / the entirety of genetic information
• Pathogenesis


  The process by which an infection leads to disease
• Pathologist


  A medical doctor specializing in diagnosing human disease
• Sequencing pathogen genomes, together with bio-informatics, can rapidly accelerate the process of medicinal drug discovery and is an essential tool in the fight against infectious diseases. Perhaps, in a comparison of disease-causing and benign strains of the same organism, genes unique to the virulent strain are likely to play an essential role in pathogenesis, and the proteins for which they code may be helpful to drug targets
• GMOs


  Genetically modified foods that introduce new genes and new traits into crops that developed more rapidly and more precisely than traditional breeding, enabling the introduction of new genes from different species, producing crops fortified with nutritional values vital for good health
• Malnutrition


  A deficiency where nutrients are scarce or imbalanced
• Anemia


  Blood count problem caused by iron deficiency
• Therapeutic


  The healing of a disease
• Proteins


  A macromolecule that provides structure to the biotic entities
• Mammals


  A warm-blooded group of animals that has a vertebrae (backbone)
• Transgenic


  An organism or cell whose genome has been altered artificially by introducing one or more foreign DNA sequences from another species

  
• Transgenic mammals are currently the most attractive source of therapeutic proteins. These animals secrete recombinant protein in easily-harvested body fluids like milk or urine
• DNAse


  A DNA-digesting enzyme used to treat Cystic Fibrosis (a build-up of mucus in the lungs, digestive organs, and other body organs)
• Erythropoietin


  Stimulates the red blood cell/erythrocyte production, used to treat Anemia (low number of red blood cells)
• Factor VIII


  Involved in blood clotting, used to treat Hemophilia (bleeding deficiencies due to blood clotting factors)