Evolution of Biotechnology
https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2014.1023
The above article provides an overview of the development of biotechnology in health care applications.
1. What are the years covered in this description of biotechnology development?
2. Choose one of the activities or products developed for patient care in the 1980s and find a source that explains how biotechnology was used for this activity or product.
3. Choose one of the activities or products developed for patient care in the 1990s and find a source that explains how biotechnology was used for this activity or product.
4. Choose one of the activities or products developed for patient care in the 2000 – 2014 period and find a source that explains how biotechnology was used for this activity or product.
5. When this article was published, how many pharmaceutical companies were involved in the production of Gardasil? What is Gardasil?
6. What are the top four medical disciplines for which the most biotech-developed treatment products have been produced?
7. Describe a biotechnology advance in medicine that has been developed since 2014. Provide the url for the site that you used.
10. Describe current global advances in biotechnology. Provide the url for the site that you used.
