Life Sciences

Definition

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What are Life Sciences ?

We define "Life Sciences" to encompass companies in the fields of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, biomedical technologies, life systems technologies, nutraceuticals, cosmeceuticals, food processing, environmental, biomedical devices, and organizations and institutions that devote the majority of their efforts in the various stages of research, development, technology transfer and commercialization.


More generally we define 'Life Sciences' as all sciences that have to do with 'organisms', like plants, animals and human beings.

More specifically the following fields of science are included.
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  • Agrotechnology

  • Animal Science

  • Biochemistry

  • Biocontrol

  • Biodynamics

  • Bio-engineering

  • Bioinformatics and biocomputing

  • Biology

  • Biomaterials

  • Biotechnology

  • Biomedical Engineering

  • Biomedical Imaging

  • Biomedical Systems

  • Biomolecular Engineering

  • Biomonitoring

  • Biophysics

  • Biotechnology

  • Cell Biology

  • Ecology

  • Environmental Sciences

  • Food Sciences

  • Genetics and Genomics

  • Medical Imaging Techniques

  • Molecular Biology

  • Nanotechnology

  • Neuroscience

  • Plant Science

  • Proteome and Proteomics

  • Smart BioPolymers

  • Tissue Engineering
 

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