the biotechnology industry has grown rapidly in recent years, doubling in size between 2004 and 2014. much attention is given to the potential of the biotechnology industry, from drugs and environmental products currently in the pipeline. these products have the potential to generate tremendous opportunities for society, by improving the quality of health care and producing a cleaner environmen...

Nanomedicine: Does this term more than pseudo-scientific “pink of fashio”, at least potentially? From a "classical" point of view, the goal of nanomedicine is the creation of nanoscale autonomous technical devices (nanorobots), programmed to perform diagnostic and/or therapeutic manipulation in a living organism: the destruction of malignant cells, destruction of atherosclerotic plaques, and so...

Autistic Disorders (ADs) are neuro-developmental disorders in the category of pervasive developmental disorders chiefly described by three main deficits: 1) deviant communication, 2) impaired reciprocal social interaction, and 3) limited, repetitive and stereotypic patterns of behaviors or interests . The world-wide prevalence of ADs is estimated to be 62/10,000 . Although various treatment reg...

The extraordinary revolution in biotechnology has created new possibilities for curing disease and manipulating our genetic heritage. It is easy to see how biotechnology can be used for medicinal purposes. Knowledge of the genetic makeup of our species, the genetic basis of heritable diseases, and the invention of technology to manipulate and fix mutant genes provides methods to treat the disea...

a 51 hour (3 credit) lecture course entitled pharmaceutical biotechnology is outlined which details the biochemistry and biotechnology of biological drug products. it is designed to equip students undertaking pharmacy program with an understanding of concepts, both academic and applied, directly relevant to working in the biotechnological products sector. in addition to the course, a bank of re...

1 Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Center, School of Pharmacy, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, P.O. Box 71345-1583, Shiraz, Iran. 2 Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Pharmacy, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, P.O. Box 71468-64685, Shiraz, Iran. 3 Department of Medical Biotechnology, School of Medicine, Fasa University of Medical Sciences, Fasa, Fars, Iran. 4 Non...

aSchool of Public Health, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas; bDepartment of Medical Entomology & Vector Control, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran; cDepartment of Pharmacognosy, Biotechnology Research Center, School of Pharmacy, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad; dDepartment of Biotechnology, School of Pharmacy, Mashhad Uni...

background: in modern biomedicine, there is an increasing speed of development of new ideas and technologies and, consequently, increasing speed of new applicable knowledge. the rapid advances in medicine and biotechnology during recent decades, is accompanied with important discussions about new questions and dilemmas in the field of professional ethics. the increased recognition of ethical pr...