Keep reading for a window into the world of biotechnology and how it has impacted your life.

Although we will likely have associations with the word based upon our daily experiences, thoroughly rooted in the twenty-first century, 'technology' is in fact a huge umbrella term that goes well beyond the phones, laptop computers, and speakers that we might first think of. To go even further, it is even larger than the computer systems and devices that are also conjured by the word; it actually consists of nearly everything that humanity has actually discovered and used as a tool to do something, or enhance the processes behind it. For example, we hardly ever consider technology to consist of something made from organic matter, however rather something mechanical and metal. Nevertheless, human biotechnology is one of the most crucial locations of technological innovation, whether that remains in the format of vaccinations or things much further back in the history of biotechnology, such as baking bread or making beer.

Technology is an exceptionally loaded term in this day and age, and it is most likely that the large bulk of people will think of the customer technology that we will tend to us in our everyday lives; phones, laptop computers, refrigerators, ovens, and transport-- these are all technologies that have actually helped to make our lives a lot easier, and undoubtedly been definitely revolutionary in regards to the way in which we live our lives. Nonetheless, there are locations of technological advancement that have perhaps had a far greater influence on our lives, even if we do not really understand it, or are unable to see it. Medical biotechnology, for instance, has totally altered the very foundation of our lives because far more individuals have the ability to not only get through childhood, but live long and healthy lives well into old age than at any other point in history. A lot of that boils down to things like vaccinations, but likewise the huge variety of biotechnology developed throughout the sector, and with individuals like Stuart Peterson of Artis Ventures still funding crucial biotechnological innovation, it will continue to have a big, if hidden, influence on our lives for centuries to come.

Innovation, going back to the invention of the wheel and beyond, has actually constantly helped to make life simpler and much better for humans. That is no less true today, and even if it can often be easy to question the significance, or perhaps the benefits, of customer technology, it can be difficult to argue with tech that is assisting to do things like feed the world's needy. Agricultural biotechnology is doing some incredibly interesting things, from making crops more resistant in the face of the environment crisis, to cultured and alternative proteins being funded by the likes of Hakan Goker of M Ventures and Nick Cooney of Lever VC.