It's Not Easy Being.. .a Raw Material SMEeeeeee

摘要

If I wanted to talk to you about raw materials, would your ears perk up? No? You're not alone. In fact, I'm surprised that you've read this far. It's not easy being a biopharmaceutical raw material. Sure, you know that you're needed, only because on the rare occasion you show up late or you accidentally fail your entrance exam here or there, everyone freaks out. But what about all those times you reliably do your job and all the credit goes to those weakling viruses or those fragile little antibodies. It's a thankless job. You're always the first to be blamed whenever the process hiccups; that or those mysterious lab donkeys (i.e., assays). If A.A. Milne wrote of the hundred-acre biopharmaceutical facility, raw materials would inevitably play the role of Eeyore.