The Importance Of Biotechnology

One of the most important subjects in science is biotechnology. The use of organisms, living systems, or parts of organisms is what biotechnology is all about. Biotechnology involves manipulating nature in order to make systems, products, or environments for human or other species. We can 't argue the fact that biotechnology has played a big role in scientific research, for it has modified plants, humans, organisms, etc. Biotechnology is all around us and in our everyday lives, from the clothes on our back , the chemicals we use to clean them with, the food we consume, the medicine we use to treat each other, even the fuel we use to get to our destination.

Biotechnology has been around for decades and has been improving throughout time. One

In class we talked about many crazy people, but one that caught my attention was Werner Forssmann, a physician from Germany, that decided to ignore his department and experiment on himself by threading a catheter into his arm vein and pushing it 20 inches in his own heart. Werner Forssmann was the first to perform cardiac catheterization. After, he performed this procedure on an ill women whose condition got much better. Another person that caught my attention was Johann Friedrick Miescher, a swiss biochemist, who discovered deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) from hospital bandages that contained pure pus. Miescher studied the white blood cell which, protects our body and destroys any harmful cell that enters our body. Miescher needed many white blood cells to study the nuclei, so went to every nearby hospital to collect bandages. Then he would washed off the pus and collect the white blood cells in beakers. He found that that nuclein was made of phosphorus, oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen. Scientist that continued the research of DNA were James Winston, an american biologist, and Francis Crick, an english physicist, these two discovered the double helix structure of the human DNA by using X-ray crystallography. This revealed the structure of the DNA molecule. With this we were able to see a life form and how it looks like, but most importantly it gave us a better understanding of the genetic code, one of most important scientific