An antihistamine is used for treating common allergy symptoms, such as sneezing, watery eyes, hives, and a runny nose. They're also used to treat motion sickness, nausea, dizziness, sleep problems, anxiety, and Parkinson's disease.
Part of the Nanotechnology glossary: Biotechnology is the use of biological processes, organisms, or systems to manufacture products intended to improve the quality of human life.
Insulin crystals. Biotechnology is the use of living systems and organisms to develop or make products, or any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use (UN Convention on Biological Diversity, Art. 2). Some examples are the designing of organisms to produce antibiotics, and the engineering of genetic cures through genetic manipulation. 2  White biotechnology, also known as industrial biotechnology, is biotechnology applied to industrial processes. 3  An example is the designing of an organism to produce a useful chemical.