Word: biotechnica
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...years since, similar work has been done on about 50 species of fruits, vegetables and grains. Calgene, a biotech firm in Davis, Calif., has developed a tomato that does not rot as fast as normal varieties, and hopes to market the new product by 1993. Early this year BioTechnica International of Cambridge, Mass., announced the first genetic alteration of corn, the No. 1 crop...
Indeed, the ability to track recombinant bacteria through the environment has become a crucial factor in getting EPA approval for a release. The lack of an effective marker has, for example, held up a test by Biotechnica International, a Cambridge, Mass., firm, of Rhizobium bacteria altered to boost their ability to fix nitrogen in the soil. In one of the California ice- minus tests, however, scientists have been able to monitor the spread of anti- icing bacteria on potato plants. The marker system in this case was rifampicin resistance, less sensitive than Monsanto's multiple indicator but still able...
Susan M. Hanley, 29, of Cambridge, is a research associate in a genetics research company, BioTechnica International, working in yeast mold biology. While she was an undergraduate, Hanley majored in chemistry, but has spent the last seven years researching E. coli, a common bacterium...
Faculty members disagree about what conflicts occur when they take-on responsibilities beyond the walls of Harvard. Frederick Ausubel, associate professor of Biology and a consultant for the nine-month-old Biotechnica, Inc. says a potential conflict of spirit can occur. "Can one devote all that much time to creative work at a university and at the same time have a major creative endeavor somewhere else?" he asks rhetorically...
Because of the controversy surrounding the academic-industry relationship, many companies are striving to attain "in-house" capacities, which would leave them more self-sufficient and as independent from universities as possible. An official of Biotechnica says that since the company is just now building permanent labs, many of its employees are still maintaining their academic posts. But he adds that after the labs are completed, many of the researchers plan to leave their jobs to join the company full-time. Although the companies are drawing away some untenured professors, post-docs, and technicians, most professors believe that universities...