Word: biogen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Biogen Corp. thought there couldn't be a nicer place to settle...
...they figured, the city had already gone through a two-year struggle over DNA research in the city and decided, in the words of Biogen lawyer Kenneth Novack, "not to ban it and not to let it be done totally laissezfaire, but to allow the research if strict guidelines were followed...
...weeks after the Swiss-based firm announced its plans for the facility--the first manufacturing plant using DNA technology on the East Coast--Biogen executives are not quite so confident...
...CERB hearings will take time, and they could result in regulations so strict they could force Biogen and other firms out of the city...
...Biogen facility's limited manufacturing will probably require larger amounts of fermenting bacteria than university research, a fact that makes Vellucci and others in the East Cambridge neighborhood where the plant is slated for construction fearful of pollution or accidental release...