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and the limitations of the use of animal proteins, were strong spurs
to the establishment of the biotechnology industry in the 1980s. At
first, there were not many ways to change the proteins isolated from
these sources to make them more useful as drugs. Engineering—
specifically
genetic engineering
—held the promise of helping scien-
tists design protein drugs that would be extremely effective.
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