Chief Editor: Andreas Ch. Hadjichambis
Editors: Demetrios Mappouras, Mikis Hadjineophytou, Panayiota Matsouka, Pavlos Neophytou, Maria A. Tsiarli, Soti Constantinou
Biological Cyprus: Trends and developments in biological research of the 21st century
Hadjichambis, A. Ch., Mappouras, D., Hadjineophytou, M., Matsouka, P., Neophytou, P., Tsiarli, M. A., Constantinou, S. (2025). Biological Cyprus: Trends and developments in biological research of the 21st century (p. 274). Nicosia: Cyprus Biological Society. ISBN 978-9925-7814-3-0.
In an era of rapid biological developments, this open access book presents trends and developments of contemporary biological research in the 21stcentury. Nowadays, the enormous development of biological research shows important applications in health, environment, economy and society in general. Biological research is vital for a modern society, as innovations resulting from this research can contribute to economic development in the bioeconomy sector and can also contribute to improving the health and citizens’ quality of life. Biology is the science of our century and the main protagonist of the 4th industrial revolution whose threshold we have already crossed. Interconnectivity, intelligent automation, the internet of things and the internet of systems cannot be realized without the essential contribution of biology. We are already talking about the in vivo clinical application of the CRISPR molecular scissor, for the correction of genetic errors. New generation of “intelligent” and innovative drugs, as a result of biological research, have are already been circulating worldwide for the gene therapy of diseases. Neurological repair and genetic engineering are booming. We live in the century of biology, and personalized precision medicine, which is the future of medicine, cannot be achieved, without the essential contribution of biological research. Educational systems must embrace and adopt to these substantial developments of the science of biology.