16 October 2013AmericasGabriel Di Blasi and Alexandre Santos

New horizons: biotech guidelines in Brazil

Biotechnology had its beginning with fermentation, the use of which coincides with the very beginning of the Christian era, mingling with the history of humanity. The Sumerians and Babylonians had known about the production of alcohol by fermentation of cereal grains prior to the year 6,000BC.

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