Word: biotech
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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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...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...