Applications of Biotechnology in Health and Medicine

In humans, somatic gene therapy was carried out to correct an immunodeficiency disease. Name this disease.

Taking examples under each category, discuss upstream and downstream processing.

The diagram given below represents the schematic structure of proinsulin, which undergoes certain modifications before it becomes a fully functional insulin.

Study the diagram carefully and answer the questions that follow:

1. State the change the proinsulin undergoes to become fully functional.
2. Name the modern scientific technique used for the production of human insulin.
3. How are the two polypeptide chains of the fully functional insulin held together?

State the cause of ADA deficiency in humans.Mention a possible cure for an ADA deficiency patient.

State the best-known contribution of P.K. Sethi

PCR proceeds in three distinct steps governed by temperature, they are in order of ____________.

Recombination DNA−technology is of great importance in the field of medicine. With the help of a flow chart, show how this technology has been used in preparing genetically engineered human insulins.

Vaccines that use components of a pathogenic organism rather than the whole organism are called ____________.