Biotechnology's Decade of Stagnation IT is widely recognised around the world today that advances in biotechnology, along with those in material science, computers, microelectronics, artificial intelligence, space sciences and new sources of energy, would be the major determinants of our life styles in the foreseeable future. Biotechnology, like computers, has now become a part of our common vocabulary. What has our government done in regard to biotechnology, specially when we have a full Hedged department dedicated to it in Delhi'' The structure of biotechnology today rests largely on the following pillars: