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...BioShield hasn't transformed much of anything besides expanding the federal bureaucracy. Most of the big pharmaceutical and biotech firms want nothing to do with developing biodefense drugs. The little companies that are vying for deals say they are being stymied by an opaque and glacially slow contracting process. The one big contract that has been awarded--for 75 million doses of a next-generation anthrax vaccine--is tangled in controversy; it went to a California firm, VaxGen, which in its 10-year history has never brought a drug to market. In the scientific community, biodefense is viewed...
...annals of pharmaceutical fumbles--and there have been some real doozies--the flu-vaccine shortage of fall 2004 occupies a special place. That crisis began when California biotech company Chiron was forced to dump 48 million doses of its flu vaccine, nearly half the U.S. supply...
...that soy oil gets hydrogenated, according to Mark Matlock, senior vice president of food research at Archer Daniels Midland (ADM). But alternatives are on the horizon. ADM, for example, has developed oils that not only behave like hydrogenated oils but also, Matlock says, are relatively healthy. The biotech giant Monsanto, meanwhile, is working on a variety of seeds for a stable soy oil. The first non-genetically-engineered batch of those will produce only 80 million lbs. of oil this year, according to Robert Reeves, executive director of the industry's Institute of Shortening and Edible Oils...
...still know a lot of the guys on the team,” said biotech consultant McKibben, who in his previous life played offensive tackle. “This still kind of feels like our team out there. Two-thirds of those guys were here...
...allows you to play news editor and zero in on the information you really need, even as you expand the number of sites you sample. You can subscribe to just the parts of the Seattle Times, for example, that cover biotech and the Mariners. Or you can go even deeper: instead of looking through all the new apartment-rental ads on classifieds site Craigslist, say, you can enter your price range and your preferred neighborhoods, and save that search result as an RSS feed. The appropriate listings pop up in your newsreader every day, just as if you'd hired...