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...University help form a commercial company to profit from the research of Harvard scientists? For a while the answer seemed to be yes. President Derek Bok floated just such a proposal last month. The centerpiece of the plan was a gene-splicing technique, developed in the labs of Molecular Biologist Mark Ptashne, that can be used to make interferon. In the future, sale of interferon and other genetically engineered products could bring in millions of dollars, so the idea of creating a company to develop and eventually market such products seemed attractive to the managers of Harvard University...
...porcupines make love?" asks the old joke. "Very, very carefully."But how do other animals do it? For those who want more serious replies, Biologist Robert Wallace provides some fascinating (and nonprurient) details. Volumes have been written about mating rituals at the top of the food chain. How They Do It demonstrates that the lower animals have rituals that are every bit as varied-or bizarre. Geese, for example, form ménages à trois; bedbugs practice homosexuality; lobsters are rapists, immobilizing mates with their powerful claws. Chimpanzees are hyperpromiscuous: an oestrous female will usually mate with every male...
...seem to be surviving. Several of the Bronx Zoo's condors now dive and wheel over the mountains of Peru. One of the most prestigious breeding programs has been established on the island of Jersey in the English Channel, where a British group under the honorary directorship of Biologist-Author Gerald Durrell has been breeding everything from rare primates (lemurs and marmosets) to endangered birds (the brown-eared pheasant and thick-billed parrot) and reptiles (the red-footed tortoise and Jamaican...
Still, for all his extracurricular interests, including a young biologist named Lynn Alexander whom he would shortly marry, Sagan was a highly productive researcher. As always, he was iconoclastic. Although most astronomers were studying the more distant realms of the stars and galaxies, Sagan opted for the nearby planets, under the tutelage of the late Gerard Kuiper. He realized that planets were the most likely places for extraterrestrial life to be found in his lifetime. He also anticipated that the U.S. would soon embark on an ambitious program of planetary exploration. At a party just before Sputnik I spurred American...
Genex Corp. of Rockville, Md., another fast-rising entry in the field, was founded three years ago by Molecular Biologist Leslie Glick and another professional raiser of venture capital, Robert Johnston. Though the company is secretive about its projects, Bristol-Myers revealed that Genex is working for it on the production of interferon...