Word: hybridoma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Davie got in touch with Mallinckrodt Inc., a St. Louis medical supply company also engaged in hybridoma research. The result: a $3.8 million three-year agreement in which Washington University gets funding for research and Mallinckrodt gets copies of all resulting scientific papers-before their publication. If any discoveries are commercially viable, the university will hold the patent and receive royalties; Mallinckrodt will have an exclusive license to market the product. Says Mallinckrodt President Raymond Bentele: "The agreement allows the university to do what it does best-that is, basic research&3151;and it allows us to do what...
...things as the Xerox, the transistor, the laser and the microchip. A lot of Yankeeingenuity is spent, to be sure, on diverting gadgetry, such as a projected palm-size phone and a vacuum cleaner with a memory (a seemingly gratuitous burden). But recent developments in medicine, such as the hybridoma cells for cancer treatment and the creation of insulin through genetic engineering, are making the 1980s look boldly promising...
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