Environmental Biotechnology

Environment Biotechnology is biotechnology that is applied to and used to study the natural environment. Environmental biotechnology could also imply that one try to harness biological process for commercial uses and exploitation. The International Society for Environmental Biotechnology defines environmental biotechnology as "the development, use and regulation of biological systems for remediation of contaminated environments and for environment-friendly processes ". Environmental biotechnology can simply be described as "the optimal use of nature, in the form of plants, animals, bacteria, fungi and algae, to produce renewable energy, food and nutrients in a synergistic integrated cycle of profit making processes where the waste of each process becomes the feedstock for another process".
 
Significance of Environmental biotechnology: Science through the IAASTD has called for the advancement of small-scale agro-ecological farming systems and technology in order to achieve food security, climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation and the realisation of the Millennium Development Goals. Environmental biotechnology has been shown to play a significant role in agro ecology in the form of zero waste agriculture and most significantly through the operation of biogas digesters worldwide. 
 

  • Designer Proteins and molecules in Signal Process
  • Synthetic biology (The next chassis organisms)
  • Microbial Cell Factories
  • Renewable Biomass: Industrial microbial strains
  • Drug delivery systems
  • Cell culture & medical applications
  • Electro-microbiology
  • Genetically engineered mushrooms
  • Genetically engineered yeast in industrial production

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