Pharmaceutical biotechnology

Recent Trends in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

The foundations of pharmaceutical biotechnology mainly lie in the capability of plants, microorganism and animals to produce low and high molecular weight compounds useful as therapeutics. Although molecules from plants and microorganisms are preferred extraction from plant biomass needs tedious downstream processing while in case of microorganisms it is easy with fewer amounts of impurities. P...

Pharmaceutical applications of biotechnology: promise and reality.

Biotechnology has continued to advance the state of the art in pharmaceutical research and discovery, especially in the generation and screening of molecular diversity [1]. Patents have begun to issue on both chemical [2] and biological [3] strategies for creating and evaluating libraries of compounds. Whether structured or random in design, these combinatorial collections, composed of natural ...

Anaerobic Biotechnology for Pharmaceutical Wastewater Treatment

The wastewater generated from the pharmaceutical industry contain high organic load and the treatment are primarily carried out using two major types of biological methods; aerobic and anaerobic. However, due to high strength, it is infeasible to treat some pharmaceutical wastewater using aerobic biological processes. As an alternative, an anaerobic process is preferred to remove high strength ...

a suggested course detailing pharmaceutical biotechnology

a 51 hour (3 credit) lecture course entitled pharmaceutical biotechnology is outlined which details the biochemistry and biotechnology of biological drug products. it is designed to equip students undertaking pharmacy program with an understanding of concepts, both academic and applied, directly relevant to working in the biotechnological products sector. in addition to the course, a bank of re...

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