Medicinal biotechnology : methods and applications /

Covers a wide range of topics from traditional herbal medicine to recent plant and animal biotechnology approaches used for the production of vaccines, hormones, enzymes, edible medicinal products, herbal therapeutics, and other secondary metabolites. The book opens with a historical perspective of...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors:	Singh, Dev Bukhsh (Editor), Upadhyay, Santosh Kumar (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, [2025]
Subjects:	Biomedical engineering. Biotechnology. Medicinal plants. Biotechnology Plants, Medicinal Génie biomédical. Biotechnologie. Plantes médicinales. biomedical engineering. bioengineering. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. An overview of medicinal biotechnology: A historical perspective
Chapter 2. Genetic diagnosis and gene therapy approaches: Current status and limitations
Chapter 3. Traditional medicinal system: Significance and future
Chapter 4. Transgenic animals and plants: application and future scope
Chapter 5. The engineering of medicinal plants: Future prospects and limitations
Chapter 6. Metabolomics for biomedical research and personalized medicine
Chapter 7. Techniques for metabolite extract analysis
Chapter 8. Microorganisms as a source of bioactive natural products
Chapter 9. Application and ethical consideration of bioprospecting in the identification of small biomolecules for the development of novel therapeutics
Chapter 10. Biotechnological approaches for the production of chemotherapeutics
Chapter 11. Plant cell cultures: Production of biologically important secondary metabolites
Chapter 12. Natural product biosynthesis in engineered microbial hosts
Chapter 13. Production of therapeutic vaccines, antibiotics, and hormones
Chapter 14. Biological production and application of secondary metabolites and other medicinal products
Chapter 15. Intellectual property rights of medicinal products
Chapter 16. Application of hairy root culture in therapeutics
Chapter 17. Therapeutic potential of commonly used edible plant products
Chapter 18. Herbal therapeutics for chronic disease management
Chapter 19. Genome editing for value addition in medicinal plants
Chapter 20. RNA vaccines in plants: Applications and future scope.