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Perhaps the most promising avenue to ample IF supplies is the recombinant DNA technique being tried by Biogen and other companies. Scientists chemically snip a gene from the DNA of one organism. The gene, which contains the code for producing a certain protein, is then chemically spliced into the DNA of another life form, usually a harmless laboratory strain of the common intestinal bacterium Escherichia coli. Now the genetically reprogrammed bug has the ability to produce something new. It begins cranking out the protein and, given the proper nourishment, making millions of carbon copies of itself, each capable of producing...
...amount of interferon made by these bacterial minifactories was extremely small and impure. But the researchers, who did their work on behalf of Biogen S.A., a Swiss-based firm set up to exploit recombinant DNA technology, hope to produce larger quantities of purer material. The ultimate goal: to bring down the cost of an injection of interferon from today's price of $75 a shot to as little...
Harvard officials are willing to admit that private funding is used for research, although Geoffrey P. Pollitt, director of the Bio Labs, said yesterday that such funding is "unusual." University records show only three instances of private funding for research, one from UpJohn Corporation, one from Biogen, who is helping to pay for the insulin experiments of Walter F. Gilbert '53, American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology, and one from the Campbell Soup Corporation, which sponsored mushroom research earlier this decade...