Whether a new drug against cancer, energy-saving detergents or genetic fingerprints, biotechnology is a firmly established part of everyday life. But what’s actually exactly behind this technology? What are biotechnological processes and where are they applied? This is the kind of general information and interesting daily news on this topic that you can find on the website www.biotechnologie.de. The information platform for biotechnology in Germany has been relaunched and released with a new design. The relaunch enables the initiative of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung -BMBF) to clearly arrange all relevant topics about biotechnology – edited in a generally understandable form.