Biotechnology Techniques that use living organisms or parts of organisms to produce a variety of products (from medicines to industrial enzymes) to improve plants or animals or to develop microorganisms to remove toxic from bodies of water, or act as pesticides.

Clone is a term used to describe a daughter animal with an identical genome to the mother. In nature some plants are natural clones, but biotechnology is required to clone mammals which normally require both paternal (related to previous family) and maternal (female inherited genetic) genomes. Read more..

Environmental biotechnology is a term to describe the scientific engineering of biological systems for environment-friendly processes, such as green manufacturing and clean-up pollution. This technology uses only natural sources as fungi, plants, bacteria, particularly efficient engineered microbes and enzymes in chemical synthesis processes. Read more..

Industrial biotechnology is a term upon various highly-developed applications that uses engineered microbes and enzymes in chemical synthesis processes. These engineered components can be highly effective to clean up the environment. Read more..

Self-assembly (also called Brownian assembly) is a term used to describe a spontaneous organization of individual pre-existing components into an ordered structure without human or supernatural invention. Read more..

Surface design Surface design is a very important factor in fashion design now and even more in the future due to environmental issues, consumer demands and new technology such as nanotechnology makes it possible to manipulate fabric properties at the textile surface. Surface design can be defined as all design that encompasses colouring, patterning, and [...]

Suzanne Lee is a fashion designer, author and one of the main people behind a research project named BioCouture. BioCouture is a project outcome of her book Fashioning The Future, Tomorrow’s wardrobe (Thames & Hudson). It examines the work of those scientific researchers and fashion designers, read more..