Biotechnology

"Biotechnology" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Body of knowledge related to the use of organisms, cells or cell-derived constituents for the purpose of developing products which are technically, scientifically and clinically useful. Alteration of biologic function at the molecular level (i.e., GENETIC ENGINEERING) is a central focus; laboratory methods used include TRANSFECTION and CLONING technologies, sequence and structure analysis algorithms, computer databases, and gene and protein structure function analysis and prediction.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Biotechnology" by people in this website by year, and whether "Biotechnology" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 28 publications over 17 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2003 and 2007 and 2008
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