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How has biotechnology affected the pharmaceutical industry?

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Biotechnology companies were the target of buyouts, mergers, and joint ventures in the 1980s and 1990s.

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What is pharmaceutical industry?
pharmaceutical manufacturer (or drug company - involved in the production and often research of drugs and medicines)
What is the pharmaceutical industry?
pharmaceutical manufacturer (or drug company - involved in the production and often research of drugs and medicines)
What is the difference between biotechnology and pharmaceutical biotechnology?
Biotechnology is the study of cell and other living organisms for the development of novel drugs and therapies where as pharmaceuticals is study of in organic chemical combinations [do not have life]...
What is Pharmaceutical Biotechnology?
using living organisms most like microorganisms like bacteria/fungi etc to produce medicine for example insulin
What the pharmaceutical industry should not do and why?
Sell narcotics