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Nature 443, 496-497 (5 October 2006) | doi:10.1038/443496a; Published online 4 October 2006

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Copycats gear up to dog biotech brands

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Pressure is mounting on US regulators to create an approval track for generic versions of biotechnology drugs. Meredith Wadman reports.

Bruce Downey gets exasperated when he looks at how long people have been dithering about the right way to deal with generic copies of biotechnology drugs.Last month in Washington DC, this chief executive of Barr Pharmaceuticals, New Jersey, was speaking at a meeting of makers of generic drugs.