ABSTRACT
Biotechnology has many applications in medicine. While dealing with diseases, biotechnology tools and techniques have been used in the prevention, diagnosis, and cure of diseases. Through human genetics, biotechnology has found use in genetic counseling, antenatal diagnosis, and gene therapy. This chapter discusses how vaccines are manufactured and explain the related issues, the process of making antibodies and hybridoma technology. It explains the role of biotechnology in medicine and the significance of therapeutic protein and its production. The chapter also discusses the success and failure of gene therapy and organ transplantation. It provides tools and techniques used in medical biotechnology. Some vaccines contain live, attenuated virus microorganisms. These are live microorganisms that have been cultivated under conditions that disable their virulent properties or which use closely-related but less dangerous organisms to produce a broad immune response.
