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Already this bacterial Rip Van Winkle is being touted as a trailblazer for a new industry. Ambergene Corp. of San Carlos, California, a small biotech firm Cano helped start, claims to have used similar techniques to reanimate nearly 1,500 prehistoric microorganisms ranging from bacteria to yeast. Among the compounds these tiny creatures produce, Cano and his partners hope to identify unique drugs, industrial enzymes and natural pesticides. The company is already filing for patents on promising microbes...
...Biotech entrepreneur Richard H. Rosen has given approximately $500,000 to the Division of Applied Sciences to help provide research funds for junior faculty in their second and third years, Rosen said yesterday...
...around that problem, scientists at Nextran, a biotech firm in Princeton, New Jersey, re-engineered the genes of several litters of pigs so that their tissue would have some of the immunological markings that are found in humans. After these so-called transgenic animals had grown to full size, Platt and colleagues at Duke transplanted the pigs' hearts into baboons. Ordinarily, such hearts would have stopped beating within 90 minutes. Instead, all three transgenic hearts survived for at least several hours -- one lasted more than a day. Because people and baboons are so closely related genetically, the human markings...
...There's a hugely growing concentration of computer and biotech firms here [in East Cambridge]," he says. "This is the premier location in the country...
With so many ethical questions unresolved, Harvard should work on developing a broader policy to eliminate as many conflicts as possible before jumping into another Institutes- like project. By recklessly forging links to biotech companies and investment firms, Harvard runs the risk of selling out its academic ideals to the highest bidder...