3/23/99

Public Health

 

Biotechnology

·        Future of society

·        Food shortages met through these needs

·        Sicknesses and diseases

·        E. coli used as a guinea pig to produce many compounds that people are deficient in ex:  insulin, factor VIII

·        Getting rid of hazards in beef and pork

·        Chapter 8; table 8.3

·        Vaccines that are safer

·        Improved crops like cotton (cotton ball worm), strawberry

·        Melanoma—have been more successful in treating

 

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·        Genetic engineering

·        Gene manipulation

·        Recombination

·        All three mean the same