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The World Biotechnology Industry

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The term “biotechnology” has become practically a household word over the past decade. This buzzword is seen almost daily in magazine and newspaper articles describing breakthroughs in the biomedical sciences that include the production of new diagnostics, drugs, and recombinant vaccines, novel methods for the diagnosis of cancer and infectious diseases, for the detection of the genes responsible for hereditary disorders, and for the development of pest-resistant plants, fish, and genetically altered (transgenic) animals.

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Pappas, M.G. (1994). The World Biotechnology Industry. In: The Biotech Business Handbook. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0293-6_1

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