The Graedons noted that while the active ingredient of the drug goes off patent, the pharmaceutical chemistry behind the extended delivery system may still be the intellectual property of the brand-name manufacturer.

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About half of the 400 people working in the biotech, organic chemistry and pharmaceutical section--Nolan's section--have Ph.

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For example the pharmaceutical industry is increasingly drawing on India's advanced but comparatively inexpensive medicinal chemistry capabilities, while simultaneously harnessing China's manufacturing power and utilizing specialty services unique to particular geographies, such as Vietnam's expertise in tropical diseases.

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After buying a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility with his brother and two partners, he created Orajel with the help of a chemistry professor.

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