Biden builds case for bolstering biomanufacturing

The Biden administration has launched an initiative that is intended to compensate for decades of underinvestment in and complacency about the nation’s biomanufacturing capacity.

The initiative, announced in an executive order on advancing biotechnology and biomanufacturing innovation, is being launched in the context of intense concerns about supply chain vulnerabilities and competition from China, and in the afterglow of the success of government interventions that accelerated COVID-19 vaccines. ...