本书系江苏省精品教材系列，全书共分6单元21章，讲述了生物化工的相关知识，及信息检索等内容，每章后都附有单词、短语解释，以及疑难长句注释，课后有练习题和原文的翻译参考。全书内容涉及面广，具有较强的实用性、可读性和趣味性，可提高读者的学习兴趣，帮助读者尽快掌握专业英语书刊的阅读技巧，了解文献检索及写作知识。
本书可作为高职高专院校各相关专业的教学用书，也可供从事相关工作的人员学习、阅读。

Unit 1 Preface
Chapter 1 Translation skills
Chapter 2 Special English word-formation
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Unit 2 Fundamental chemistry
Chapter 3 Elements and compounds
Chapter 4 Organic solvent
Chapter 5 Biochemical reaction
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Unit 3 Biochemical engineering
Chapter 6 Introduction
6.1 The nature of biotechnology
6.2 Historical evolution of biotechnology
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Chapter 7 Amino acids, peptides, and proteins
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Chapter 8 Enzymes
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Chapter 9 Nucleotides and nucleic acids
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Chapter 10 Fermentation and bioreactor
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Chapter 11 Downstream processing
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Chapter 12 Frontiers of biochemical engineering
12.1 Enzyme engineering
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12.2 Genetic engineering
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12.3 The Human Genome Project
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Unit 4 Pharmaceutical engineering
Chapter 13 Introduction to drugs
13.1 What is a drug
13.2 Drug absorption
13.3 The history of pharmacopoeia
13.4 Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
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Chapter 14 Synthesis of drug
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Chapter 15 Pharmaceutical production
15.1 Clarification and filtration
15.2 Crystallization and pharmaceutical technology
15.3 Drying
15.4 Mixing
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Chapter 16 Industrial pharmacy
16.1 Tablets
16.2 Capsules
16.3 Injections
16.4 Packaging
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Chapter 17 Medicine analysis
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Chapter18 Modernization of traditional Chinese medicine
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Chapter 19 Frontiers of pharmaceutical engineering
19.1 Interferon
19.2 Principles of drug design
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Unit 5 Information retrieval
Chapter 20 Introduction
Chapter 21 The research process in the cornell university library
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