2020 August Edition 47 | Page 24

www.AmericanSecurityToday.com 2020 - Edition 47 With significant progress being made, the projections are for the first deliveries potentially starting in September. Biopharmaceutical, also known as a biologic(al) medical product, or biologic, is any pharmaceutical drug product manufactured in, extracted from, or semi-synthesized from biological sources. Different from totally synthesized pharmaceuticals, they include vaccines, blood, blood components, allergenics, somatic cells, gene therapies, tissues, recombinant therapeutic protein, and living medicines used in cell therapy. With the current global health pandemic, Biopharma manufacturers need to upgrade their security quickly and efficiently to help (Yahoo Finance’s Anjalee Khemlani reports on the latest coronavirus vaccine news. Courtesy of Yahoo Finance.) 24