Plural form; pharmaceutical drugs and medicines that are produced from living organisms or contain components derived from living cells, like vaccines and antibodies.
From biologic as a noun plus plural -s. This category of drugs became the fastest-growing segment of pharmaceuticals starting in the 1990s as biotechnology advanced.
Biologics are why modern medicine seems like magic—monoclonal antibodies can target specific cancer cells while ignoring healthy ones, something traditional chemotherapy could never do.
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