Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

This is an extended summary of the course Pharmaceutical biotechnology. I made it based on the lectures, powerpoints and extra information found on the internet. I made it to make the lectures and the topics easier to understand. The chapters mentioned would correspond to the chapters from the textbook 'Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: Concepts and applications' by Gary Walsh.

This document is a comprehensive summary of pharmaceutical biotechnology, covering key topics such as biopharmaceutical production, DNA and protein engineering, expression systems, and therapeutic protein development. It includes detailed discussions on: - Differences between chemical and biological drugs. - Molecular biology tools, including restriction enzymes, PCR techniques, and cloning methodologies. - Protein expression systems in various hosts like E. coli, yeast, and mammalian cells...