Word: biotechs
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...city] has become almost a magnet for pharmaceutical companies and biotech companies and informational companies," Duehay says...
When former biotech analyst Peter Freudenthal floated a plan for a publicly traded venture-capital fund last year, he learned how radical an idea it was. As he made the rounds of the venture capitalists on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, Calif., he found they didn't want to open their cozy world to hordes of retail investors. VCs were doing fine logging triple-digit gains by making early bets on dotcoms before they went public and swimming in cash raised from the likes of pension funds and the wealthiest individual investors...
...court hasn't dealt much with biotechnology, and the highest case that got there on patenting life forms had to do with selective breeding, not genetic biotech intervention," said Michelle Swenarchuk, director of international programs at the Canadian Environmental Law Association, which lobbied the government to appeal...
According to its directors, the group also runs a start-up incubator to help entrepreneurs in the biotech arena...
...Jason explain that while the Biotech Club has grown quickly, they are still trying to gain more active members...