Life Smile works on technological applications that use biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, through research and development to make or modify products or processes for specific uses in medicine, food science, marine, industry and agriculture. Life Smile uses a collection of technologies that capitalize on the attributes of cells, such as their manufacturing capabilities, and biological molecules such as DNA and proteins to work for us by helping improve our ability to: customize therapies based on individual genomics; prevent, diagnose, and treat all types of diseases rather than rely on rescue therapy and provide breakthroughs in agricultural production and food safety.

Healthcare Biotechnology is increasingly playing a role in conventional drug discovery as well as opening up new possibilities to prevent, treat and cure hitherto incurable diseases using novel methods of treatment and diagnosis. Biotech medicines such as proteins, antibodies and enzymes now account for 20% of all marketed medicines and 50% of those in clinical trials. This is all thanks to new discoveries brought about by the sequencing of the human genome, improved knowledge of the way living organisms work and investment in enabling technologies to turn these discoveries into individual benefits. Through genetic engineering, biotechnology also uses other living organisms – plant and animal cells, viruses and yeasts - to assist in the large scale production of medicines for human use (bio manufacturing) . The health care areas in which biotechnology is currently being used include medicines, vaccines, diagnostics and emerging cell and gene therapies.

By using the human body's own resources to fight disease biotechnology offers the potential to meet unmet medical needs and to make medical treatment not just more comprehensive and highly individualized but also enables doctors to move from treatment towards disease prevention and cure.

The innovative biotech treatments involves all of the following areas that explains how biotech is helping to meet unmet medical needs, improve diagnostics and tailor medicines to groups of patients,

• Cell and tissues
• Stem cells
• Gene therapy
• Orphan drugs and rare diseases
• Proteomics
• Pharmacogenetics
• Diagnostics
• Genetic testing

Biotechnology is providing doctors with more tools which are helping to move from the treatment of diseases to prevention and cure. A whole new range of tools are being developed to support the human body to utilize its own capacities to fight infectious or cancerous diseases as well as injuries.

Thanks to the unraveling of the human genome, biotechnology is also increasing the number of disease targets for conventional drug therapy. Today conventional drugs target fewer than 500 disease targets, but in the future this is likely to rise to between 5-10 000 targets. The pharmaceutical industry will be powered more and more by biotechnology. The increased understanding of complex biological processes is opening up vast new areas of possibilities to fight and cure disease, breakthrough in bio technologies are providing new solutions to disease, injuries and the wear and tear of life.

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