Biomanufacturing is when you use living organisms to manufacture a product. For example, they use it to make wine, cheese, and bread. By using biomanufacturing, you can generally engineer cells to make useful things. Some cells may include plant cells, bacteria, and fungi. You can change the structure of these living organisms to make proteins, drugs, and vaccines. Before biomanufacturing, technology for DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid, was created in research laboratories. However, they needed biomanufacturing infrastucture to make materials for clinical trials. The early pioneers discovered biomanufacturing by inventing technology so products can be sold in markets. This was the start of the biomanufacturing industry which took place in the 1980s. Many technologies have improved and been modified through biomanufacturing. For example, our drinking water. Our drinking water can come from brackish water, where saltwater and fresh water meet. It takes a little less than a day because of the plants. There are very many different filtrations used and chemicals as well. The labs they have test the water to see if it meets the standards and what needs to be taken out. This way its safe for us to drink, not only that it can help others have clean fresh water that have never had it before. Water is a necessary part of our lives. Some major challenges may be figuring out ways to  |
 improve our crops or the food we eat. For example, how we could make food last longer but, in a more natural way without using unnecessary chemicals. With our crops, its a challenge to find ways to not use pesticides to kill the insects that eat our crops. We may breed crops in a certain way so certain insects can't eat it but, we need to keep coming up with new ways and ideas because when the next generation comes back. They are immune to it. It wouldn’t make any sense to use all of the pesticide because its bad for us, the environment, and animals. Not only that, our resources as well because they are limited, we don't have an infinite supply of anything. In the next couple years, scientists hope to accomplish many things. For example, how we could breed crops that insects could not eat, that way, there could be less pesticides used. Also, simply all the technology used in biotechnology. For example, they want to rewire the cellular systems because that way they can design and create microbes for the efficient production of the everyday common things.
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