A biopharmaceutical, otherwise called a biologic(al) clinical item, or biologic, is any pharmaceutical medication item produced in, separated from, or semisynthesized from natural sources. Not the same as completely blended pharmaceuticals, they incorporate antibodies, blood, blood segments, allergenics, substantial cells, quality treatments, tissues, recombinant restorative protein, and living meds utilized in cell treatment. Biologics can be made out of sugars, proteins, or nucleic acids or complex mixes of these substances, or might be living cells or tissues. They (or their forerunners or segments) are detached from living sources—human, creature, plant, parasitic, or microbial.

Phrasing encompassing biopharmaceuticals shifts among gatherings and elements, with various terms alluding to various subsets of therapeutics inside the general biopharmaceutical classification. Some administrative organizations utilize the terms natural restorative items or helpful natural item to allude explicitly to built macromolecular items like protein-and nucleic corrosive based medications, recognizing them from items like blood, blood parts, or immunizations, which are typically extricated straightforwardly from an organic source.Specialty drugs, an ongoing grouping of pharmaceuticals, are significant expense sedates that are frequently biologics. The European Medicines Agency utilizes the term propelled treatment therapeutic items (ATMPs) for prescriptions for human utilize that "depend on qualities, cells, or tissue designing", including quality treatment drugs, substantial cell treatment medications, tissue-built meds, and mixes thereof. Inside EMA settings, the term propelled treatments alludes explicitly to ATMPs, in spite of the fact that that term is somewhat vague outside those unique circumstances.

Quality based and cell biologics, for instance, regularly are at the bleeding edge of biomedical examination, and might be utilized to reward an assortment of ailments for which no different medicines are accessible.

In certain wards, biologics are managed through various pathways from other little particle medications and clinical gadgets.

The term biopharmacology is now and again used to portray the part of pharmacology that reviews biopharmaceuticals.