During the past decades the biotechnology industry has brought many improvements to people all over the world.
Read more about the industry in the Biotech Industry Guide.
Novel treatments, which are tailored to each person’s individual needs, are innovations waiting to happen.
Scientist’s hope that in the future, Life Science will solve problems and cure diseases that have plagued humans throughout our entire history.
Life Science is a reason to hope!
By using the human body’s own resources to fight disease, biotechnology offers the potential to meet unmet medical needs and to make medical treatment not just more comprehensive and highly individualized but also enables doctors to move from treatment towards disease prevention and cure.
Innovative medicines for treatment of major diseases like cancer and diabetes, innovative diagnostic tests, better detergents with less environmental impact and highly qualified job opportunities, are examples of developments created by biotechnology.
Biotechnology has also changed the way we look at disease and the human body. Previously, healthcare was all about treating symptoms. With the rise of biotechnology came the ability to truly understand diseases and fight the causes of illness, such as virus, bacteria or other agents.
Today there are many more diseases than treatments. Just 10 000 of the 30 000 known diseases have treatments available. Greater understanding of disease and the causes of disease is helping to produce better therapies that can more effectively address medical needs. 