Biotech companies, what do they do?  How are they  different from drug companies?
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Biotechnology does not necessarily use human case studies.  Rather, biotech is a reference to companies which use organisms to modify or manufacture their products; such as using e. coli bacteria to manufacture insulin. \n\nIn practice, many pharmaceutical firms and pharmacy benefit managers contribute to and/or own biotech companies and research facilities.  This type of industry may have particular importance in the realm of specialized medications where drugs are modified for particular recipients.
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representative for a pharma company seems to be something a lot of people choose. Don't know why, usually you have to put up with being sales representative for a while to gain experience. Don't be too picky about conditions and payment for the first job, you usually have to gain experience before you can go on to something more challenging. \nI've known people with a life science degree end up in things like:\ncollege teacher, highschool teacher, pharma representative, science database mananger, editor for fantasy games, writer/researcher for science journal, science journalist, data evalution and experiment design for clinical trials, working in public relation for a national science foundation, editor for science book companies, painter, working for nature film companies, working for environmental protection companies, starting their own company (consulting), webdesign. \n\nBasically you have to figure out what you want to do yourself. Sometimes that will be heavily influenced at which exact geographic location you want to be...
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biotecnology has loadzz of scope in India as well as abroad there is much to say the best thing u can do is visit the link below.
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Hi,\n\nbiotechnology is great field:\n\nBiotechnology is technology based on biology, especially when used in agriculture, food science, and medicine. The UN Convention on Biological Diversity has come up with one of many definitions of biotechnology:[1]\n"Biotechnology means any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use."\n\n( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotechnology )\n\nRead the page and you'll see how versatile and interesting a biotechnology specialist is.
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Pharmaceuticals is more of the big gun companies (Merck, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline).  Where as biotech encompasses a wide range of companies.  Ones that make pharmaceuticals, ones that make compounds that help with the discovery of pharmaceuticals, medical devices are sometimes included.  Both sectors have tradionally been excellent investments, but recently have been down some b/c of lawsuits, the market drop and many of the smaller biotech companies just don't have any earnings.  I think if your looking at a long term investment (10+ years), biotech will pay off.  But you have to be wise in your choice of companies.  The bigger companies are Amgen, Genetech, and Genzyme.  Your best bet is to get some fund prospectus on a Biotech fund and a Pharmaceutical/Healthcare fund from a company like Fidelity.  The prospectus usually will have a current listing of all the companies the fund is invested in, that way you can see what they are investing in and go from there.
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Biotechnology is the science of today and tomorrow. It has applications in all major service sectors of the society i.e. health, agriculture, industry, environment etc. Biotechnology as an application science has taken firm footing in countries abroad where a number of transgenic crops, genetically modified food and recombinant therapeutic molecules for human and animal health are available in the market. Biotechnology as a science of service to human society is yet to make inroads in India.\n\n\nThe scope of biotechnology in India is immense and has an estimated market of $2.5 billions, out of which 60% is in health sector, 10% in agriculture and rest in bioinformatics, genomics & others.
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http://www.ncbi.nih.gov -- the mother of all biotech sites\n\nhttp://www.nature.com/biotech/index.html for interesting articles
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biotechnology, the use of biological processes, as through the exploitation and manipulation of living organisms or biological systems, in the development or manufacture of a product or in the technological solution to a problem. As such, biotechnology is a general category that has applications in pharmacology, medicine, agriculture, and many other fields.\nThe techniques of genetic engineering have been used to manipulate the DNA (genetic material; see nucleic acid) of bacteria and other organisms to manufacture biological products such as drugs (insulin, interferon, and growth hormones). A common technique involved in this process in gene splicing, in which a gene that produces a desired product can be inserted into bacterial DNA. Bacteria can then be grown in large quantities and processed to extract the desired substance; specially cultured plant and animal cells can be similarly grown and processed. Hybrids of cancer and antibody-producing cells (hybridomas) have been cloned in the laboratory to mass produce experimental monoclonal antibodies, which are being studied for the treatment of cancer and other diseases. Bacteria have also been altered to break down oil slicks and industrial waste products.\n\nPlants and foods with such desired qualities as prolonged shelf life or increased resistance to diseases and pests have been created through genetic engineering; that is, by inserting DNA from other organisms. Much of the corn and soybeans grown in the United States, for example, are now genetically modified in some way, Livestock have also been genetically altered to produce medically useful substances (see pharming). The field of biotechnology also includes gene therapy, in which attempts are made to insert normal or genetically altered genes into cells to treat genetic disorders and chronic diseases.\n\nGreen biotechnology is biotechnology applied to agricultural processes. An example is the designing of an organism to grow under specific environmental conditions or in the presence (or absence) of certain agricultural chemicals. One hope is that green biotechnology might produce more environmentally friendly solutions than traditional industrial agriculture. An example of this is the engineering of a plant to express a pesticide, thereby eliminating the need for external application of pesticides. An example of this would be Bt corn. Whether or not green biotechnology products such as this are ultimately more environmentally friendly is a topic of considerable debate.
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here's one: http://www.arclab.org/s1biocom.html\n\nSimple web search of "biotech" "biotechnology" or "biotech industry"  turns up a lot more.
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Biotechnology is being used to address problems in all areas of agricultural production and processing. This includes plant breeding to raise and stabilize yields; to improve resistance to pests, diseases and abiotic stresses such as drought and cold; and to enhance the nutritional content of foods. Biotechnology is being used to develop low-cost disease-free planting materials for crops such as cassava, banana and potato and is creating new tools for the diagnosis and treatment of plant and animal diseases and for the measurement and conservation of genetic resources. Biotechnology is being used to speed up breeding programmes for plants, livestock and fish and to extend the range of traits that can be addressed. Animal feeds and feeding practices are being changed by biotechnology to improve animal nutrition and to reduce environmental waste. Biotechnology is used in disease diagnostics and for the production of vaccines against animal diseases.\n\nClearly, biotechnology is more than genetic engineering. Indeed, some of the least controversial aspects of agricultural biotechnology are potentially the most powerful and the most beneficial for the poor. Genomics, for example, is revolutionizing our understanding of the ways genes, cells, organisms and ecosystems function and is opening new horizons for marker-assisted breeding and genetic resource management. At the same time, genetic engineering is a very powerful tool whose role should be carefully evaluated. It is important to understand how biotechnology - particularly genetic engineering - complements and extends other approaches if sensible decisions are to be made about its use.\n\nThis chapter provides a brief description of current and emerging uses of biotechnology in crops, livestock, fisheries and forestry with a view to understanding the technologies themselves and the ways they complement and extend other approaches. It should be emphasized that the tools of biotechnology are just that: tools, not ends in themselves. As with any tool, they must be assessed within the context in which they are being used.
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microbiology is the emerging field of interest.\nIt can and plays a very important role in the pharma as we can force them to produce certain materials of our interest beyond their natural tedencies. \nnow a days genetic engineering and microbiology can both be used together for further increasing the scope.
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You may think of Plants as biochemical Laboratories. All plants create chemical molecules, as the result of their primary or secondary metabolic procedures. These chemical molecules can be quite simple or have very complex structure. \nThe biological properties of these molecules was and still is a major part of scientific investigation. So one can not say that there is a specific group of plants from which we can expect medicinal products to be researched and developed. \nHowever there is a group of plants, which we call medicinal & aromatic plants because many of the species in this group has already been utilised for their biological active chemical products. \nThis group compromises mainly from species belonging to specific plant families (e.g. Lamiaceae). \nPharmaceutical companies and botanists nowadays search for new chemical molecules and test their biological properties. Drugs that are beeing produced based on a plant molecule are basically no different from any other drug available. So keep in mind that nature was always the first medicine provider and still is.
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Biocon is one of the biggest pharma companies in the world.\nIt rank No. 1 in terms of market cap and revenues in Asia and No. 16 globally. \n\nhttp://www.biocon.com/biocon_press_archive_details.asp?Fileid=129\n\nfor more details.
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Biotechnology covers a wide range of uses, but I'd say that mostly it's about manipulating cells to express genes that we want them to express.  This could be to make them produce industrial enzymes, designer agriculture, or biopharmaceuticals.  the genetic code is pretty much universal, meaning we can take a gene from one organiand put into another to acheive specific results.  Industrial enzymes can be used for anything from cleaning wastewater with special enzymes to degrade certain toxins, to making enzymes that breakdown starch into sugar for the production of ethanol for fuel, to the making of specific detergents.  With agriculture, we can transfect plants with genes that make them more resistant to diseases or vermin, or more robust and able to grow under more varied claimates, or we can make food bigger or more nutritious.  In biopharmceuticals, we address genetic disorders by creating the proteins that some people are unable to make for themselves, allowing them to lead more normal lives.
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you can find job in the chemical, pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical and medical device industries as a process development chemist amd analytical chemist.you can also find job in the food industry! allows you to work in many of new and exciting areas of science such as BioPharmaceuticals (sometimes called biotech)or pharmaceuticals. It can also allow you to work in the work of toxicology (where you determine the effects of drugs on people/animals) or even forensics. It really combines the best of biology with the best of chemistry.
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biotech...\nmicro biology..\nbio che...
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Biotechnology, as the name implies is technology based on biology (where biology is the science of studying life). Examples include the production of alcohol by fermentation, The production of penicillin from cell cultures, the production of lysine (a protein), and many more where useful chemicals produced by biological entities are extracted as useful products. Other examples include the manufacture of cheese, yougert, wine - all involving living organisms. If you want to know more have a look at wikipedia - there is a lot of information there....