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Abstract
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic created the demand and the permissive conditions for innovative solutions, superior business models, digital technologies, funding, and licensing in biotechnology, fostering a phenomenon that might be called 'leapfrogging.' Despite a postpandemic macroeconomic downturn, a focus on radical innovation remained with crucial ramifications for biomedical challenges beyond COVID-19.
期刊介绍:
Trends in Biotechnology publishes reviews and perspectives on the applied biological sciences, focusing on useful science applied to, derived from, or inspired by living systems.
The major themes that TIBTECH is interested in include:
Bioprocessing (biochemical engineering, applied enzymology, industrial biotechnology, biofuels, metabolic engineering)
Omics (genome editing, single-cell technologies, bioinformatics, synthetic biology)
Materials and devices (bionanotechnology, biomaterials, diagnostics/imaging/detection, soft robotics, biosensors/bioelectronics)
Therapeutics (biofabrication, stem cells, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, antibodies and other protein drugs, drug delivery)
Agroenvironment (environmental engineering, bioremediation, genetically modified crops, sustainable development).