ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the very latest uses of biomolecules for therapeutic purposes, from antibiotics to more complex macromolecules and tissue systems defined as biological drugs. In spite of biotechnology becoming of immense scientific and industrial interest over the last three decades, biotechnological processes have been used by humans for millennia for beer, bread, cheese and wine production. The occurrence of high numbers of introns within the human genome can reasonably be understood if it is considered that introns occur at loci in which small fragments of DNA called transposons can insert. Due to the complexity of biotechnology and society interactions, themes related to the privacy of genetic information and results of laboratory prognostic testing, mammalian stem cells cloning and using mammals will be considered. Although biotechnology became a field of immense scientific and industrial interest, biotechnological processes have been used by humans for centuries in beer, bread, cheese, tannery and wine production.
