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BioSpectrum

Monthly magazine

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ4914659
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BioSpectrum is an English-language Indian biotech magazine that focuses on topics in pharma, agriculture, bioinformatics. It also covers news on corporates involved in R&D, industrial manufacturing or product/service distribution within the biotechnology sector.

The magazine is published in two editions: BioSpectrum India and BioSpectrum Asia. BioSpectrum India was launched in 2006. It was part of Cyber Media Limited until September 2013, when it was acquired by MM Activ. Its sister magazines under the Cyber Media banner included PCQuest, Dataquest, and MIT's Technology Review India. The headquarters of BioSpectrum is in Bangalore.

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The public source identifies “BioSpectrum” as monthly magazine. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around BioSpectrum, Monthly and magazine.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2003-03. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with BioSpectrum, Monthly and magazine providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from BioSpectrum” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.