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Futures for Biotechnology

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Since Biotechnology emerged as a business in the late 1970s the emphasis has shifted from the early predictions1 that the money makers would be a new generation of raw biochemicals and enzymes to diagnostics and pharmaceuticals, based on the key technologies of monoclonal antibodies and genetic engineering. The over-riding factor here is return on investment.

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  1. Jane Llewelyn
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  1. GB Biotechnology, Swansea, Wales

    Rod Greenshields

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Llewelyn, J. (1988). Futures for Biotechnology. In: Greenshields, R. (eds) Resources and Applications of Biotechnology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09574-2_39

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