The Economist (January 3)
2015/ 01/ 04 by jd in Global News
“In pharmaceuticals, the 20th century was the era of the small molecule.” The 21st may be the age of giant molecules as drugmakers seek new solutions. “Steady progress is being made in creating ‘biologics’, drugs that consist of giant molecules, hundreds of times the size of a conventional drug molecule, which are manufactured inside animal cells or micro-organisms such as bacteria. In the coming year a fresh wave of biologics is expected to be approved for use by general practitioners.”
Tags: Biologics, Drugmakers, Pharmaceuticals, Progress, Small molecule
