Word: biotech
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...body. At this early stage, investigators aren't so much developing cures as creating research and manufacturing techniques. For that, the specific cell lines aren't important. "This will enable the biomedical community to iron out the molecular biology of these cells," says Dr. Thomas Okarma, CEO of the biotech firm Geron, which finances stem-cell pioneer James Thomson as well as John Gearhart, "and that doesn't turn on one cell line vs. another...
...time they guarantee at least your original capital back, and possibly more. At worst, if they don't perform you'll end up losing what you would have made had you stuffed it in a savings deposit. Many guaranteed funds are linked to indexes around Asia. Other funds cover biotech, pharmaceuticals or geographical areas. Warning: look for funds with lots of investors. Funds with few takers don't do as well because they don't have as much money to invest in higher return opportunities, having to keep a larger percentage of the money in bonds and cash to cover...
...course, this isn’t the first time Congress has approached a complex question armed only with sound bytes. But Congress is a political beast, good at balancing interests and not much else, and there are no lobbyists here—except for a few biotech companies and the Catholic Church. One might think that this freedom from lobbying would spur healthy debate, improving the chances that Congress would reach the right decision for the right reasons. But without a firmer grasp of the ethical arguments than the five-minute presentations they receive—and without the courage...
...With 25 international telcom operators located here, Marseilles has become France's second-largest telecommunications center and the key hub for the southern European network. It also boasts research and production centers for the biotech and microelectronics industries - including the likes of Gemplus and STMicroelectronics - and has created local graduate schools to produce employees with the skills these companies need. The June 10 launch of the new high-speed TGV rail service - reducing travel time to Paris from four hours and 20 min. to three hours, and to Lyons from two hours and 45 min. to one hour...
...Europe, protests against the biotech industry are a staple of the news. Now a trade group is mounting a counterattack starting in classrooms. In April, 600 schools in Scotland were sent 84,000 copies of a magazine called Your World: Biotechnology & You. Produced by the Biotechnology Institute, an industry-funded organization based in Washington, the magazine features stories on transgenic animals and other biotech wonders. A recent issue highlights Monsanto's herbicide Roundup; another features a girl who took Prozac and "felt like herself again." Since 1999, 4,500 U.S. schools have received the magazine, to little protest...