STAT+: What makes a biotech a biotech?

Historically, experts distinguished between biotech and pharma companies based on how a therapeutic was made. But the line’s gotten fuzzy, making it hard to measure things like how many companies…

The prototypical biotech company is easy to envision: think Moderna, Alnylam, and Genentech.

But what about Pfizer, which claims “biotechnology is [the company’s] foundation?” What about Twist Bioscience, which doesn’t make therapeutics but was dubbed one of the “most innovative biotechnology companies of 2021”? And what about diagnostics companies, like Exact Sciences, a key element of its local biotech ecosystem?

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