Before the pandemic, the focus of biotechnology was on farming, making medicines for diseases and helping us lower our carbon footprint. But COVID-19 marked a shift in the industry as a cure was needed to bring the world out of a crisis. Research in this field over the past year has been directed towards developing vaccines to fight this global scourge.

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