Islamabad:Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Karachi (MAJU) has launched a new four years long degree program of BS-Biotechnology from its new semester SPRING-21 going to be started from next month for which admissions are in progress.
Dr Kamran Azim, Dean, Faculty of Life Sciences, MAJU, says that the subject of biotechnology has become very important in all the important fields of life including medical, agriculture, ecology, pharmaceuticals, and the food industry, according to a university statement issued on Friday.
He said that students studying this subject can easily get jobs in biotechnology institutes, hospitals, laboratories, pharmaceutical companies, agricultural development, and educational institutions, and food manufacturing factories. He said that Biotechnology is the technology applied to biology, molecular biology, genetics, and many other subfields of biology. He said that Biotechnology utilizes cellular and bimolecular processes to create technologies and products that help improve our lives and nature.
He said that by making useful food, such as bread and cheese, and preserving dairy products, we have done these for many years by now. He told that recent biotechnology develops breakthrough products and technologies to fight diseases, reduce our environmental harm, feed the hungry, use less and cleaner energy, and have safer, cleaner, and more efficient industrial manufacturing processes. Dr. Kamran Shaikh so far, more than 250 biotechnology health care products and vaccines have been made available to patients, many for previously untreatable diseases.
More than 13.3 million farmers around the world use agricultural biotechnology to increase yields, prevent damage from insects and pests and reduce the damage done to environment due to farming. And more than 50 bio refineries are being built across North America to test and refine technologies to produce biofuels and chemicals from renewable biomass, which can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.