Jornal de Biomarcadores Moleculares e Diagnóstico

Role of Biotechnology in Improving Human Health

Abstract

Hina Afzal, Khadija Zahid, Qurban Ali, Kubra Sarwar, Sana Shakoor, Ujala Nasir and Idrees Ahmad Nasir

Biotechnology has offered modern medical devices for diagnostic and preventive purposes, which include diagnostic test kits, vaccines and radio-labeled biological therapeutics used for imaging and analysis. Human health is a major growing concern worldwide because of infectious diseases. Biotechnology has played a dynamic role in improving the challenges regarding to human health as it has flexibility to reduce global health differences by the provision of promising technologies. Health, life quality and expectancy of life have been increased worldwide through the services provided by biotechnology. Malnutrition mainly arises due to the lack of essential nutrients and vitamins in food and ultimately results in death. Biotechnology has play a major role in eliminating these problems by producing nutrients enriched food such as Golden Rice, Maize, potato and soybean etc. Biotechnology has also played an important role in controlling the environmental pollution through biodegradation of potential pollutants. This review sketches improvement of human health by the use of biotechnological advances in molecular diagnostics, medicine, vaccines, nutritionally enriched genetically modified crops and waste management.