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...develop a drug that would block the linkage and cure a cold before it got started. Or so the thinking went. Unfortunately, the logistics, from both a biological and a business point of view, turned out to be a lot more complicated than anyone expected. The crash of the biotech sector, in which some of the more interesting anticold research has taken place, certainly didn't help...
Another antiviral drug, called pleconaril, had the rug pulled out from under it last March when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration declined to approve it, citing concerns that pleconaril might interfere with the effectiveness of oral contraceptives and other drugs. To combat that problem, Viropharma, the biotech company that developed pleconaril, decided to reformulate the pill, turning it into a nasal spray, thereby lowering its dose and the chance that it might interfere with other drugs. Viropharma is now looking for another pharmaceutical company to help defray the costs of testing the new formula...
...leading scenarios involve moving a cluster of graduate schools, anchored by the Law School, or building a science park with possible tie-ins to biotech...
...scientists fused mouse and human cells. Today whole animals are being patented; pigs are bred with human cells in hope of finding a source of organ transplants for the 70,000 people on waiting lists in this country alone. And that raises the question: If an Australian biotech company creates a creature that is part human, part pig, what law would apply to it? Should a company be allowed to patent a cloned human embryo, then market its cells to help fight disease? What if the embryo is made of human DNA planted...
...first insecticide was made from powdered chrysanthemums in China nearly 2,000 years ago. Now biotech companies test bananas that contain a hepatitis vaccine and tomatoes that fight cancer. Dow makes a kind of corn that can turn into biodegradable plastic. Other companies have field-tested a cross between a flounder and a tomato to see if a fish gene can help a fruit stay fresh in freezing weather. The U.S. and the rest of the world are locked in a fight over how much to tinker with and how much to tell about what is now inside what...