What is the best branch of biotechnology in Malaysia in the future?
During the past few years, biotechnology has emerged as a powerful technology that has a big potential for a number of economic sectors, including agriculture. A number of basic human needs such as food, cloth, medicines and a cleaner environment have been fulfilled through biotechnological means. New developments in genomics (namely the human genome project and other genome projects in a number of organisms including important crops such as rice), bioinformatics and proteomics have opened new frontiers in biotechnology R&D. The convergence of these new technology platforms with the powerful information technology now provides a greater understanding of the biology of plants, animals, humans, and micro-organisms at the molecular level, enabling us to develop better strategies and approaches to deal with current and future challenges.
