Biotechnology: what it is and how it's about to change our lives
Biotechnology is a broad range of technologies that employ living organisms or parts of them to make diverse products. For example, drugs and therapeutics, nutritional compounds, environmentally friendly chemicals and materials, biofuels, and novel functional materials can be produced through biotechnology. More broadly, medical biotechnology ...

Biotechnology: From transforming healthcare to transforming our planet ...
Biotechnology beyond medicine is actively helping us to achieve the SDGs in an inconspicuous yet powerful fashion at a time when meaningful progress is crucial. Medical biotechnology (red biotech) has been transformative to our overall health and life expectancy, but leveraging biology as technology isn’t limited to breakthroughs in medicine ...

How biotech can revolutionize healthcare for the future | World ...
Biotech and its applications are rapidly evolving and have the potential to revolutionize industries, including healthcare. But forward-thinking businesses, governments and academia need to work together to realize biotechnology's full promise. C4IR Serbia recently launched at the Biotech Future Forum as biotech was revealed to be the country's ...

6 expert essays on the future of biotech | World Economic Forum
Biotechnology is a rapidly changing field that continues to transform both in scope and impact. Karl Ereky first coined the term biotechnology in 1919. However, biotechnology’s roots trace back to as early as the 1600s when a Prussian physician, Georg Ernst Stahl, pioneered a new fermentation technology referred to as “zymotechnology.”

Biotech can provide solutions to the global food crisis | World ...
Biotechnology holds part of the key to enabling a transformation of our economy and our food systems. While in the past, we have mainly focused on offering farmers sustainable alternatives to chemical pesticides and food waste reduction, for instance by extending the shelf-life of products, the current innovative biotechnological solutions are offering society at large the possibility to shift ...

Four problems that biotechnology can help solve - The World Economic Forum
Biotechnology offers some of the most promising and targeted ways to find solutions to these threats. For example, the British company Oxitec, a subsidiary of Intrexon Corporation, offers a technology to control the spread of a single species of insect, Aedes aegypti, the primary vector for dengue, chikungunya and Zika virus outbreaks around ...

AI and Biotechnology - these two super technologies are combining ...
The matching power of AI means that eight lives could be saved by just one deceased organ donor; innovations in biotechnology could ensure that organs are never wasted. The faster these technologies advance, the more lives we can save. AI and biotech are undergoing rapid development precisely because they have such far-reaching potential.

How biotechnology is evolving in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
How biotechnology is evolving in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. When modern biotechnology emerged in the late 1970s, it was first applied in the health sector, with the onset of recombinant DNA. One decade later, the same molecular approaches reached the agricultural and food industries, not without controversy.

How could biotechnology improve your life? - The World Economic Forum
Feb 25, 2013. Experts on the World Economic Forum’s Council on Biotechnology have selected 10 developments which they believe could help not only meet the rapidly growing demand for energy, food and healthcare, but also increase productivity and create new jobs, should issues such as regulatory certainty, public perception and investment be ...

How to speed up the biomanufacturing revolution
2. Scale. Increasing access to scale in both the development and deployment of biomanufacturing solutions is needed to accelerate growth of the bioeconomy. Here's how: Strategic partnerships across large platform developers, application-specific technologies, and mature consumer-facing companies can accelerate biomanufacturing product development.