29-06-2017, 12:38 PM
Biotechnology has come to play an increasingly important role in many aspects of everyday life. Once an expensive and largely unfamiliar option, it has now become a realistic alternative to many established approaches to manufacturing, land remediation, pollution control and waste management. The application of biological engineering solutions to environmental problems has become much more readily acceptable in principle and biotechnology in general, more widely understood, but there is still some uncertainty among practitioners about how and where the microscopic functional level fits into the Macroscopic and practical applications. It is precisely this gap that the book seeks to fill.