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Life sciences industry
- PfizerIn 2025, a single Pfizer medicine called Eliquis brought in 7.9 billion dollars. That was 13 percent of the company's revenue for the year. Pfizer is an American pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporation, and its headquarters sit at The…
- NovartisNovartis takes its name from the Latin phrase novae artes, which means new skills. The Swiss pharmaceutical company is based in Basel, and by revenue it ranked eighth among the world's drug makers in 2024. Its medicines include clozapine…
- PharmacokineticsMonitoring each patient's blood levels rescued the drug ciclosporin. Doctors nearly abandoned it over kidney damage.
- PharmacologyThe Greek root of pharmacology meant both drug and poison. That word also linked to a ritual human scapegoat.
- Abbott LaboratoriesAbbott Laboratories makes a repair clip for leaking heart valves, and it also makes the Pedialyte given to a child with a stomach bug. The American health care company operates in over 160 countries. It buys from at least 62 suppliers…
- BayerBayer sold heroin as a non-addictive substitute for morphine. From 1898 to 1910, it marketed it as a cough remedy.
- AmgenThe name AMGen is shorthand for Applied Molecular Genetics, the label the company carried when it was founded in Thousand Oaks, California, in April 1980. The shortened name stuck, even though the original one described a science project…
- Bristol Myers SquibbAlmost a third of Bristol Myers Squibb's 2025 revenue came from one drug, Eliquis.
- GenentechGenentech got bacteria to make human insulin within two years of its 1976 founding.
- DARPATechnology research and development agency of the U.S. Department of Defense
- AstraZenecaAstraZeneca, the Swedish-British drugmaker, turned down a final offer from Pfizer on the 19th of May 2014. The bid was 55 pounds a share. That valued the company at 69.4 billion pounds, or about 117 billion US dollars. The two companies…