How Can Biotechnology Benefit The Society?

Though mankind has always been modifying animals, plants and its surroundings as per its requirement for several centuries; the current era can be credited for introducing genetically modified methodologies and concepts that can meet societal demand for   healthcare, productivity, fresh job scopes, food etc. Thus we can say that biotechnology is responsible for bringing in a transition to the complete human civilization for enhanced life quality. And today, in this post we shall throw some light on how can biotechnology benefit our culture and society.

1. Engineering Food Production:

The growth in global population has posed a challenge to the production of enough food for  healthy survival. Thus, it was required to accept genetically altered methods that can enhance productivity. Despite being termed controversial, 16.7 million cultivators had adopted biotechnologically based crops to be cultivated across 400 million acres of land in 29 nations. This got introduced in 2011 and today even after more than a decade, it is being continued as it has actually helped in production growth.

Benefits of Biotechnology For The Society

2. Bioprocess Of Sea Water:

As compared to river water, sea is an abundant source of water that can be effectively used through bioprocesses. Experts are working on to come up with a permanent solution for sea water to be used as freshwater across countries where there is a scarcity for quality usable water. Besides these, sea water and the weeds that grow in it can as well be biologically engineered to produce biofuel that can be further utilized to generate energy.

3. Usage Of CO₂ As Raw Materials:

We are all aware of the threats that carbon dioxide causes to the living environment. Thus, scientists and professionals are at a constant trial to bring up some solutions through the understanding of its consumption by living organisms. Experts are controlling and making best use of these biological systems to craft out an innovative wave to alter excess carbon dioxide and C1 molecules into new materials, fuels, energy and chemicals.

4. Health-conscious Food:

Though junk foods and other unhealthy eatables are responsible for the increased percentage of obesity, on the other hand health experts have launched healthier items such as golden rice – rich in Vitamin A, easily digestible and nutritionally high sorghum, oils from soybeans and sunflowers, etc. Moreover, with the help of biotechnology now it is possible to avert allergen from foodstuff and enhance its quality as per medical recommendations. When it comes to safety of processed meat, biotech researchers are developing products to destroy the E. coli 0157:H7 bacteria, responsible for over 73000 cases of illness annually in the United States.

5. Advanced Healthcare

There was a period when it was taking much time and money to sequence the first human genome and look at today’s time – it takes hardly a day to sequence a complete human genome. When we analyze the roughly 3 billion base pairs in such a sequence we find that we differ from each other in several million of these base pairs. Studies states that in maximum of the cases it won’t hamper anything but still slight chances remains in causing diseases. Thus, medical and biotechnology experts are working on such genetic difference and their phenotypic consequences.

 

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