Medicinal Biotechnology: Methods and Applications covers a wide range of topics from traditional herbal medicine to recent plant and animal biotechnology approaches used for the production of vaccines, hormones, enzymes, edible medicinal products, herbal therapeutics, and other secondary metabolites. The book opens with a historical perspective of medicinal biotechnology which includes a discussion of successive development in the field of medicine, starting from early civilization up to current and advanced approaches and strategies. The book also provides a wide range of topics that include: a discussion engineering approaches in medicinal biotechnology, metabolomics, extraction of metabolites, personalization approaches, and strategies for the effective use of medicinal product and drugs; explanation of engineering approaches in medicinal biotechnology, metabolomics, extraction of metabolites, personalization approaches, and strategies for the effective use of medicinal product and drug; and coverage of specific knowledge on the production and use in vaccines, antibodies, and hormones.
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Table of Contents
1. An Overview of Medicinal Biotechnology: A Historical Perspective2. Genetic Diagnosis and Gene Therapy Approaches: Current Status and Limitations
3. Traditional Medicinal System: Significance and Future
4. Transgenic Animals and Plants: Application and Future Scope
5. The Engineering of Medicinal Plants: Prospects and Limitations of Medicinal Biotechnology
6. Metabolomics: Biomedical Research and Personalized Medicine
7. Techniques for Metabolite Extract Analysis
8. Microorganisms as a Source of Bioactive Natural Products
9. DNA Profiling and Synthetic Biology
10. Bioprospecting: The Search for Bioactive Lead Structures from Nature
11. Biotechnological Approaches for the Production of Chemotherapeutics
12. Plant Cell Cultures: Production of Biologically Important Secondary Metabolites
13. Natural Product Biosynthesis in Engineered Microbial Hosts?
14. Production of Therapeutic Vaccines, Antibiotics, And Hormones
15. Biological Production and Application of Secondary Metabolites and Other Medicinal Products
16. Intellectual Property Right of Medicinal Products
17. Application of Hairy Root Culture in Therapeutics
18. Therapeutic Potential of Commonly Used Edible Plant Products
19. Herbal Therapeutics for Chronic Disease Management
20. Genome Editing for Value Addition in Medicinal Plants
