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Bio Q4 Module 1 - Week 1
Bio Q4 Module 1 - Week 1
Quarter 4: Week 1
Application of Biotechnology in Health
Quarter 4- Module 1:Application of
Biotechnology in Health
Third Quarter: Module 1
May 24-28, 2021
• Pre-Test (15 points) ______ (g. form)
• Written Work # 1 (10 points) _____ (g. form)
Biotechnology is not considered in itself as a science but as a
multidisciplinary area that includes knowledge of the
application of scientific principles and applied sciences (such
as biology, chemistry, engineering and genetics, etc.) with
high use in agriculture, pharmacy, food science, forestry and
medicine, and processing of materials by biological agents to
provide goods and services which allows to get a benefits for
human being.
Red or healthcare biotechnology is applied to medical and
food science processes. Includes molecular diagnostic
techniques, development of vaccines, antibiotics and new
drugs, production of biological molecules for therapeutic
purposes (such as hormones and antibodies) gene therapy
(modification of the genetic material of cells for treating
diseases or disorders), transgenic animals as bioreactors
(production of pharmacological proteins in milk of farm
animals). For example, the development of generic
engineering to cure diseases.
Importance of Biotechnology in Health
• Forensic/Identity testing
• Determining sex
• Conformational diagnosis of symptomatic individuals
• New-born screening
• Prenatal diagnostic screening
• Correcting genetic defects
• Treating diseases
• Preventing the spread of disease
• Altering genome
C. Treatment or prevention of disease
1. Vaccines
• A vaccine is a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular
disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-
causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of
the microbe or its toxins. The agent stimulates the body’s immune system
to recognize it as foreign, destroy it, and ”remember” it, so that the
immune system can more easily identify and destroy any of these
microorganisms that it encounters later.
• Vaccinated people produce antibodies that neutralize a disease-causing
virus or bacterium. They are much less likely to become infected and
transmit those germs to others.
2. Antibiotics and Antivirals
• The process in which a faulty gene is removed or replaced with its healthy
copy to restore the normal function of that gene.
• Replacing mutated gene that causes disease with a healthy copy of the gene
• Inactivating or “knocking out” a mutated gene that is functioning
improperly
• Introducing the new gene that help fight a disease