Biotechnology is one of the fastest growing field in the area of research and development. It has more than tripled in size in the recent years with avenues surpassing $ 30 billion.
It is also called a technology of the future or technology of tomorrow because of it’s unprecedented impacts on the human mankind and the universe as a whole. Due to it’s interrelation with other fields such as industry, agriculture, computers etc, it is going to create amazing opportunities for manipulating the biological systems and thereby understanding the mysteries of fundamental life processes.
It is needless to emphasize that it is also going to offer tremendous career opportunities not only to the youngsters pursuing courses in biotechnology but also to the students of various related fields.