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...last week, when word leaked out that Biogen Inc. plans to build a major recombinant DNA facility in the middle of East Cambridge, it appeared the city's historic debate over DNA had had just the opposite effect...
...Biogen lawyer Kenneth Novack added that "the city has already made a decision: it could have banned DNA work outright, or left it completely laissez-faire. Instead, it chose to allow DNA research within certain regulations, regulations that we already follow...
...Biogen development will differ from research conducted at Harvard and MIT in one main way--products of the research will be manufactured, at least in limited quantities, requiring what Muller termed an "upscaling" of the whole process...
...Biogen S.A., which is based in Geneva, Switzerland, was the first firm to develop bacterial interferon. Founded in 1978, it is operated by a multinational board of directors and scientists. Schering-Plough last year invested $8 million in Biogen in return for exclusive worldwide manufacturing and sales rights to three of its products. Biogen has also found a second way to make interferon and is working on chemicals to cure foot-and-mouth disease, hepatitis and malaria...
...interferon to one-twentieth of its present cost. Earlier this month G.D. Searle & Co. announced plans to build a $12 million IF plant at its research facilities in Britain. Abbott Laboratories, Warner-Lambert, Merck & Co., and a number of other companies are also gearing up for interferon production. When Biogen S.A., a Swiss firm specializing in the new recombinant DNA (gene splicing) techniques, announced in January that it had induced bacteria to produce a facsimile of human interferon, the stock of Schering-Plough, a part owner of Biogen, rose almost eight points, to 37?. Says one prominent cancer researcher...