This category focuses to distinct, yet closely related industries: Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical manufacturing. Increasingly, companies focusing on biotechnology are also involved with pharmaceutical production, and vice versa.

Biotechnology Industry: Companies engaged in the use of cellular and molecular processes for the purposes of drug discovery and production, research, and biologically engineered food production.

Pharmaceutical Industry: Includes over-the-counter drug makers, vitamin and nutritionals companies, makers of drug delivery and diagnostic substances, and wholesale drug distributors.

Biotechnology is the overall theme of this category, with all pharmaceutical sites collocated in the Pharmaceuticals subcategory.

Sites focused on biotechnology research and study are listed under the related category: Science/Biology/Biotechnology/

Sites focused on pharmaceutical research and study, pharmacies, information on specific drugs and medications, and general pharmaceutical informationn are lised in Health/Pharmacy.

Last update : 2003-06-29 02:04:20