For ourselves
Biotechnology and biotechnology-based research has been used to assist human health in many areas. These include:
- producing antibiotics to fight bacterial infections
- making vaccines and other products to boost the immune system against disease
- reproductive technologies, including in vitro fertilisation to assist infertile couples to have children
- the Human Genome Project
- detecting and treating genetic disorders and diseases
- transplantation technologies
- DNA profiling and forensics
Read more in the Human Uses chapter.