Third edition of volume 16th of the Iraqi Journal of Biotechnology was published in the 3rd . of October 2017, the number contained all the research participating in the third conference of the Institute of Genetic Engineering and contain thirty-two research in various disciplines of genetic engineering and the role of genes in many cancer diseases that affects the breast, stomach, bladder, blood, colon, lung, ovaries and the use of molecular genetic methods for the diagnosis of such diseases
Other research was dealing with the role of some pathogens such as bacteria, parasites and fungi, their relationship to the occurrence of cancer, as well as the role of the expression of some immunological indices in breast cancer in women and in sample of Iraqi patients. moreover ,research such as the use of modern techniques in the evaluation of sperm apoptosis in Iraqi sever oligozoospermic patients And the role of genes in infertility of males on the other hand , the number included research in the DNA repair gene in patients with lung cancer , and finally research also on the occurrence of oral and oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma among the Iraqi patients in Basrah city.