Biotechnology - Implications For The Future

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Biotechnology, if utilised correctly and to all aspects, plays a significant part in the future of humans. These aspects include but are not limited to artificial body parts and artificial organs and transplants. Currently, in the medical industry, artificial body parts and transplants are a crucial element to many of the population’s survival. This area is also used widely as a research subject and will be put to great use in the future. Biotechnology is a field of applied biology that involves the use of living organisms and bioprocesses in engineering, medicine, technology to create products or to complete tasks for human beings. The concept of biotechnology has flourished since prehistoric times. When the first human beings discovered that they could plant their own crops and breed their own animals, they learned to use biotechnology. The discoveries that fruit juices could be fermented into wine or that milk could be converted into milk or yogurt are both examples of biotechnology, along with many others. In its purest form, the term “biotechnology” refers to the use of living organisms or their products to modify human health and human environment. In medicine, the use of artificial body parts can be referred to a prosthesis, prosthetic, or prosthetic limb. This is an artificial device extension that replaces a missing or dysfunctional body part. It is part of the field of biomechatronics, the science of using mechanical devices with human muscle, skeleton or nervous systems to assist of enhance motor control lost by trauma, disease, or defect. Prostheses are typically used to replace parts missing from birth (congenital), lost by injury (traumatic) or to supplement defective body parts. Within science fiction, and more recently, within the science community, there has been consideration to using advanced prostheses to replace healthy body parts to

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