The majority are now biologics – created by biological processes, rather than being chemically synthesised – with immunotherapy and cancer medicines dominating the top 10, according to figures from EvaluatePharma/EP Vantage.
Based in North Carolina and employing 23,000 people in more than 50 countries, Quintiles has helped develop or commercialize all of the 30 best-selling pharmaceutical products and nine of the top 10 biologics (medical products created by biological processes).
Biologics -- a class of compounds created by biological processes instead of chemistry -- include a range of antibodies, interleukins (proteins and molecules critical to the function of the immune system), and vaccines.
As the name implies, biomarkers are molecules produced by biological processes and could reveal the origin, evolution and distribution of any life that arose on Mars.
"We are going to use it to sniff out the presence of methane on Mars and determine if it is being produced by biological processes".
Once it gets there, some of the dissolved minerals such as calcium are removed from the water by biological processes, but salt tends to remain.
The colloids prepared in living organisms by biological processes are vital to the existence of the organism.
On the other side it presents all the techniques developed since more than one decade to commercially solve, the problems of contaminated sites by biological processes.
Classical culture media, as well as domestic and/or industrial wastewater treated by biological processes, have a complex composition.
Removal is usually accomplished by biological processes in which microbes consume the organic impurities as food, converting them into carbon dioxide, water, and energy for their own growth and reproduction.
"Prior to Alan's work there was a perception that relapse was an inevitable part of the disease of addiction, primarily triggered by biological processes".
