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Medical BiotechnologyMedical and pharmaceutical biotechnology can speed diagnosis, prevention, and certain therapies. Biotech medicine includes the creation of new vaccines, neutraceuticals, cosmetics with active biological ingredients, and medicines from transgenic animals and plants. Although not as controversial as food biotechnology, ethical concerns have been raised about stem cells, genetic enhancement, cell cloning, testing of new drugs in developing nations, controls of transgenic crops, and international regulation and enforcement. |
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Keywords biotechnology, vaccines, neutraceuticals, pharmaceutical companies, transgenic organisms, stem cells, genetic enhancement, HIV/AIDs, Ebola virus, SARS virus, flu virus, Chagas disease, Parkinson's disease, regenerative medicine, reproductive cloning, medical diagnosis, biological patents, health policy, biopiracy, intellectual property, genetic resources, human genomics |
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