A MultiLingual timeline of life sciences localization in the 21st century

摘要

2020 was, without a doubt, a marquee year in almost every way possible, not least in terms of the interplay between language and the life sciences.While certain issues were novel, others were perennial; and while certain were unexpected, certain had been predicted years prior in the pages of this very magazine.Join me as we look back on 16 years of Multilingual and examine the topics of the time, and the relevance they still have today.The US has always been a multilingual nation, but as immigration from non-anglophone countries increased and diversified in the closing years of the 20th century, the need for reliable, skilled medical interpretation and translation began to be more widely acknowledged.