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Proteomics is all the rage in Europe as well. The British biotech Oxford GlycoSciences announced this month that it had filed for patents on 4,000 proteins. It has $280 million in cash reserves and is awaiting U.S. and European approval of a drug for Gaucher disease, a rare inherited disorder...
...Johnson & Johnson have set up venture funds to ensure access to the latest technologies. This fall Eli Lilly joined their ranks with a $75 million biotech fund. And IT firms such as IBM and Compaq are getting involved. IBM works in partnership with investment banks like Boston's Oxford Bioscience Partners to provide funds for promising start-ups. Says Carol Kovac, general manager of IBM's life-sciences program: "We see this as the next major scientific revolution for the decade...
Other computer and telecom giants are also playing. Marconi, based in London, has pitched in to help Oxford GlycoSciences map all human proteins, while Hitachi and Oracle are doing the same with Utah's Myriad Genetics...
...right-wing leadership despite serving in the coalition government. The Middle East peace process would also probably do better under former foreign minister Shlomo Ben-Ami, widely perceived as the front-runner for the Labor Party leadership. Ben-Ami enjoys the advantages of a Moroccan birth and an Oxford education and is seen as a more intelligent version of former Prime Minister Ehud Barak. He is by no means progressive, nor even as conciliatory as Peres, but he does believe in compromise and in the necessity of an agreement...
Brown, who took the spring term of his junior year off to live in a refugee camp in Nepal, will work towards a masters in migration and development studies at Oxford...