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...open whole new areas of business enterprise. Venture money has fueled the development of the computer industry through investments in Prime Computer, Cray Research, Tandem and other companies, helped spark airline industry diversification with People Express and Air Florida, and bankrolled infant gene-splicing companies like Genentech and Biogen...
...good number of them even resented what looked like preferential treatment for Ptashne. ("There was a lot of lobbying in the sciences," Solbrig says. Others pointed out then that the University had not helped launch companies with other scientists such as molecular biologist Walter Gilbert, whose Biogen Inc, S.A. had been operating for about three years.) But instead of presenting the Ptashne case straightforwardly, administrators chose to cloak it in the framework of "technology transfer," thereby cluttering the consideration at hand. Consequently, when the Ptashne case sunk, it unnecessarily dragged an issue of crucial importance to the future...
Private firms doing recombinant DNA manufacturing work are the principal target of the legislation. One such firm, Biogen, Inc., announced last fall that it planned to locate in East Cambridge...
...Biogen officials were unavailable for comment yesterday, but company officials said last month they would be happy to abide by the NIH guidelines. Robert Neer, chairman of the Cambridge biohazards committee, which developed the ordinance, said recently that "as far as I know they're still interested...
...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...