Data from the report, Biotech: A Dose of Happy Pills in a Depressing Industrial Market?, show biotech exports for the first four months of 2009 were up a remarkable 57% over the same period last year. The total value exceeded $4 billion. "[T]his is quite an impressive performance given that many industrial manufacturing-related sectors, such as the domestic auto industry, are shrinking," says Torto Wheaton economist Luciana Suran, author of the report.

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