ABSTRACT
Biotechnology is the use of a living system(s) to discover new disease biological targets and produce a pharmaceutically useful product, often called a biological product because of its structural and mechanistic similarity to naturally occurring substances in the human body. This entry briefly touches on the history of biotechnology, then moves to an in-depth discussion of some of the core drug development technologies, such as r-DNA technology, Mab technology, and other biological techniques and processes.
