title: Current state of biotechnology in Turkey.
abstract: Biotechnology is an interdisciplinary branch of science that encompasses a wide range of subjects like genetics, virology, microbiology, immunology, engineering to develop vaccines, and so on and plays a vital role in health systems, crop and seed management, yield improvement, agriculture, soil management, ecology, animal farming, cellular process, bio statistics, and so on. This article is about activities in medical and pharmaceutical biotechnology, environmental biotechnology, agricultural biotechnology and nanobiotechnology carried out in Turkey. Turkey has made some progress in biotechnology projects for research and development.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Erciyes University, 38039, Kayseri, Turkey. dundar@erciyes.edu.tr
authors.forename: Munis
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dundar
authors.forename: Yagut
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Akbarova
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture; D000818:Animals; D001672:Biocompatible Materials; D001673:Biodegradation, Environmental; D056804:Biofuels; D035843:Biomedical Research; D001709:Biotechnology / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends*; D004345:Drug Industry; D006801:Humans; D036103:Nanotechnology; D012106:Research; D014421:Turkey
chemical_list: D001672:Biocompatible Materials; D056804:Biofuels