Introduction
Walter Isaacson, in his Time magazine article "The Biotech Century" labeled the 2000s as the 'biotech century' and highlighted the imminent revolution of biotechnology and what it held for the twenty-first century . Today, the fruits of his seeds of foresight are just beginning to materialise.
The term 'biotechnology' spans across a spectrum of industries and dabbles into various sensitive issues like cloning, genetically modified food and etc. In essence, biotechnology is the application of science and engineering to the direct or indirect use of living organisms, or parts…
