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| | Encyclopedia of Biopharmaceutical Statistics |
 | | Although the contributors are mostly biostatisticians who have extensive practical experience in biopharmaceutical research and development, we have attempted to make each entry self-contained and self-explanatory to a reader who is not an expert in the subject matter of each topic. | | | "
Most of the contributors to the encyclopedia are biostatisticians who have extensive practical experience in biopharmaceutical research and development. | | | In recent years, there has been an explosive growth of literature in biopharmaceutical research and development of new medicines for the treatment of certain diseases that are severe and/or life-threatening. |
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| | Biopharmaceutical -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | Biopharmaceuticals are medical drugs (see (The science or study of drugs: their preparation and properties and uses and effects) pharmacology) produced by (The branch of molecular biology that studies the use of microorganisms to perform specific industrial processes) biotechnology. | | | Term biopharmacology also describes a field of research closely related to (The study of the action of drugs in the body: method and rate of excretion; duration of effect; etc.) pharmacokinetics. | | | The first such substance approved for therapeutic use was recombinant (Hormone secreted by the isles of Langerhans in the pancreas; regulates storage of glycogen in the liver and accelerates oxidation of sugar in cells) insulin in 1982. |
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