This color poster depicts "the proven route to biopharmaceutical approval" as a series of steps on a path riddled with potential pitfalls. It advertises the testing services offered by Microbiological Associates Inc. The poster was collected at the BioEast conference in 1994.
Biopharmaceuticals are a class of drugs produced by organisms, cells, or biological systems that have been modified by scientists in order to create molecules useful as medicines or diagnostics. Typically these drugs are proteins, nucleic acids, or antibodies.
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