Biotechnology gives chemistry “another turn of the screw”

Abstract

Biotechnology is a technology that uses the properties of living systems to produce and transform food, to obtain therapeutically active substances and to collaborate with environmental changes, among other applications. Like all technology, it is considered multidisciplinary and many of the disciplines that provide it with scientifc foundation are derived from chemistry. The industrial production of drugs sees a decrease in the proportion of small synthetic molecules, and an increase in the proportion of macrobiomolecules expressed through living systems. This was possible after the application of concepts derived from the sequencing of the human genome and the optimization of largescale production of recombinant human proteins. The objective of this work is to reveal new applications related to chemistry, derived from its more recent variants, to revalue, rethink and update its teaching.