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Biotechnology 2000

Nature Biotechnology volume 17, page 1239 (1999)Cite this article

With biotech beginning to show signs of a recovery in the latter half of 1999, the year's end is a good opportunity to extend our positive thinking and contemplate which areas and technologies might grow considerably in the coming year. This has been a tradition since this column's inception more than two years ago. It continues here, focusing on five technologies and areas that show some important signs of growth for the future.

The choice is, of course, vast, and there are many technologies and applications that deserve to be highlighted. The technologies and applications discussed here were chosen on the basis of major recent advances that have invented or re-invented them and opened up very significant markets as a result.

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