ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the role of biotechnology in medicine and explores the process of making antibodies and hybridoma technology. It shows how vaccines are manufactured and discusses the significance of stem cell therapy and the related issues. The chapter considers the success and failure of gene therapy and organ transplantation and provides some tools and techniques used in medical biotechnology. Biotechnology has found a wide range of applications in medicine. While dealing with diseases, applications of biotechnology include prevention, diagnosis, and cure of diseases. Pharmaceutical firms and biotechnology companies have little incentive to develop vaccines for these diseases because there is little revenue potential. The major applications include animal and human healthcare, genetic counseling, and forensic medicine. Transplantation medicine is one of the most challenging and complex areas of modern medicine. In orthopedic medicine, a bone graft can be sourced from a patient’s own bone in order to fill space and produce an osteogenic response in a bone defect.
