What difference is there between biopharmaceuticals and biotechnology...? (chemistry, websites, sound)

[Tronas]

Biotechnology and in the pharmaceutical and medical fields that is.

I've looked it up online and the explanations that I have found on science websites don't make much sense to me....they still sound like they're the same thing.

[Avondalist]

Biotechnology is broader. It could be a plastic eating microbe designed to clean up the ocean.

Biopharmaceuticals are a form of biotechnology.

[Tronas]

Originally Posted by Avondalist

Biotechnology is broader. It could be a plastic eating microbe designed to clean up the ocean.

Biopharmaceuticals are a form of biotechnology.

Please read my post....
So they're the same thing then, right?

[luv4horses]

Pharmaceuticals are drugs discovered and developed to improve human life. Never would use the term biopharmaceutical. Sounds like advertising.

Biotechnology refers to the use of what we have discovered about biochemistry that we can use to hopefully improve the future of all desirable life forms directly or indirectly.

[Avondalist]

Originally Posted by Tronas

Please read my post....
So they're the same thing then, right?

All biopharmaceuticals are biotechnology, but not all biotechnology is biopharmaceuticals. One is a superset of the other.