Search Details

Word: biotech (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Solving the problem is difficult, mostly because of the ferocious debate over how to do it. Biotech partisans say the answer lies in genetically modified crops--foods engineered for vitamins, yield and robust growth. Environmentalists worry that fooling about with genes is a recipe for Frankensteinian disaster. There is no reason, however, that both camps can't make a contribution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Challenges We Face | 8/26/2002 | See Source »

...congressional investigators dug into the troubled biotech firm ImClone in June, they had a simple but explosive question for Martha Stewart, a friend of former ImClone CEO Samuel Waksal's: Did she receive inside information that prompted her to sell her ImClone stock just a day before the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rejected ImClone's cancer drug and sent the share price tumbling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Martha's Untidy Story | 8/19/2002 | See Source »

...warned that without a diverse economy, Americans would be divided into two classes—“the people that sweep the floors at the biotech company and the scientists at the biotech company...

Author: By David Weinfeld, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Capuano Defends Trade Barriers, Democratic Party in IOP Speech | 8/9/2002 | See Source »

Extremophiles also represent a biotech bonanza, pumping out unique substances that could be invaluable in all sorts of industrial and medical applications (see box). Polymerase chain reaction (PCR), for example, the DNA-amplifying method used most famously in the O.J. Simpson murder trial, exploits an enzyme manufactured by a Yellowstone extremophile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Life Began | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

...founded Advanced Tissue Sciences, where she developed the first temporary skin substitute based on human tissue, which has aided burn victims in North America, Europe and Africa. The Brooklyn, N.Y.-born scientist, now 46 and the mother of three, is once again breaking ground. She became the first woman biotech entrepreneur to lead a major U.S. business school when the one at San Diego State named her its dean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People to Watch In International Business | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

Previous | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | Next