医药公司已经开始对海底生物如海参下手，因为它可以为治疗癌症的药物提供材料。

Pharmaceutical companies are already mincing up Marine creatures known as sea cucumbers that may yet provide drugs for treating cancer.

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但是直到目前他们还不能仿制复杂且昂贵的生物技术药物，这些药物越来越多的应用于治疗癌症、糖尿病和其它多发于像美国那样的富裕国家的疾病。

But they had never been able to copy the complex and expensive biotech medicines increasingly used to treat cancer, diabetes and other diseases in rich nations like the United States - until now.

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现在则投向更个体化的药物，即更有效治疗小部分病患的生物技术药物。

Now they are investing in more personalised medicine: biotech drugs that treat small groups of patients more effectively.

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