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Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
The scientific area of “Pharmaceutical Biotechnology” encompasses many aspects of the pharmaceutical and biotechnologies industries. This topic is defined here to include all aspects of protein therapeutics, gene therapeutics, cell therapeutics, and therapeutic natural products. The commonality shared by all of these is the use of living systems to produce or manufacture either the final product, or to generate precursors that are ultimately modified to constitute final drug products.