US biotechnology: Information instead of products

Safety of Biotechnology Products

Medicines based on the application of recombinant technology are relatively new to the therapeutics industry. This chapter will focus specifically on purified and recombinant proteins, collectively termed protein therapeutic agents (Gallupi et al., 2001), used in the treatment of disease that are able to affect the growth or metabolism of cells in vivo. This rather broad definition includes pro...

Risk assessment of biotechnology products

A number of crop products generated by using biotechnology have been introduced to the marketplace. These biotechnology products have been carefully evaluated for their overall safety from an agronomic, environmental, performance, and equivalence perspective, and the safety of the newly expressed protein(s). One aspect of the safety evaluation is the question concerning potential allergenicity....

1 Downstream Processing of Biotechnology Products

Chapter 26 – The Biomanufacturing of Biotechnology Products

*Vice President Manufacturing Science and Technology, Cytovance Biologics, Inc., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, **Senior Vice President Operations, Cytovance Biologics Inc., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, ***Vice President Quality Systems, Cytovance Biologics Inc., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, †Senior Vice President Regulatory Affairs, Cytovance Biologics Inc., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, ††Executive Director Qua...

Application of biotechnology to improve livestock products

Biotechnological achievements of recent years have emerged as powerful tool to improve quality attributes of livestock products including milk and meat products. Biotechnological approaches can be employed for improving productivity, economy, physicochemical and nutritional attributes of a wide range of livestock products. The target areas of biotechnological research in the field of livestock ...