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Harvard biologists were more than a bit perturbed last fall over a dramatic radio advertisement for a thriller novel set in the Harvard bio labs, the scene of an army of cancerous germs sweeping through Cambridge...
...Meeting the bear has been one of the greatest educational experiences of my Harvard career," said Lewis B. Silverman '86, a fall Bio 7b student...
...proximity of MIT, which is just south of the neighborhood, many of the business interested in locating in the East Cambridge area are in the high-technology and bio-technology and bio-technology industries...
...Gene Age benefits from an insider's understanding of the industry. Lynn Klotz is an executive of Bio Technics International, a genetic engineering firm located in North Cambridge. (Klotz was Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Harvard when recombinant DNA research first began.) His knowledge brings some surprising insights: for example, the commercial production of a drug can often be speeded up if scientists patent the manufacturing process. The sale of penicillin, by contrast, was held back 15 years because its discoverer, Sir Alexander Fleming, had deemed it ignoble to patent the process...
...Thor Industries, an Ohio maker of motor homes and trailers. Some of the largest firms going public are savings and loan associations, which are trying to raise capital after several years of disastrous losses. But the most intriguing companies for Wall Street are ones that have names beginning with "bio" or ending...