Unit 1 Preface 1 Chapter 1 Translation skills 1 Chapter 2 Special English word-formation 7 Reading material 11 Unit 2 Fundamental chemistry 14 Chapter 3 Elements and compounds 14 Chapter 4 Organic solvent 18 Chapter 5 Biochemical reaction 22 Reading material 25 Unit 3 Biochemical engineering 27 Chapter 6 Introduction 27 6.1 The nature of biotechnology 27 6.2 Historical evolution of biotechnology 32 Reading material 38 Chapter 7 Amino acids, peptides, and proteins 41 Reading material 44 Chapter 8 Enzymes 47 Reading material 51 Chapter 9 Nucleotides and nucleic acids 54 Reading material 58 Chapter 10 Fermentation and bioreactor 60 Reading material 69 Chapter 11 Downstream processing 70 Reading material 82 Chapter 12 Frontiers of biochemical engineering 84 12.1 Enzyme engineering 84 Reading material 88 12.2 Genetic engineering 90 Reading material 94 12.3 The Human Genome Project 97 Reading material 101 Unit 4 Pharmaceutical engineering 105 Chapter 13 Introduction to drugs 105 13.1 What is a drug 105 13.2 Drug absorption 108 13.3 The history of pharmacopoeia 111 13.4 Good Manufacturing Practices(GMP) 114 Reading material 119 Chapter 14 Synthesis of drug 121 Reading material 128 Chapter 15 Pharmaceutical production 129 15.1 Clarification and filtration 129 15.2 Crystallization and pharmaceutical technology 131 15.3 Drying 133 15.4 Mixing 135 Reading material 138 Chapter 16 Industrial pharmacy 140 16.1 Tablets 140 16.2 Capsules 142 16.3 Injections 143 16.4 Packaging 145 Reading material 153 Chapter 17 Medicine analysis 156 Reading material 159 Chapter18 Modernization of traditional Chinese medicine 160 Reading material 163 Chapter 19 Frontiers of pharmaceutical engineering 165 19.1 Interferon 165 19.2 Principles of drug design 167 Reading material 171 Unit 5 Information retrieval 174 Chapter 20 Introduction 174 Chapter 21 The research process in the cornell university library 179 Reading material 183 參考文獻(xiàn) 185