The UMass road to biotech
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IN 2004, Mass Insight and Battelle consultants published the Technology Road Map, an audit of the Commonwealth's competitive position in several technology-based disciplines. The Road Map also made a compelling case for the importance of the University of Massachusetts to the state economy.
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Biotech and high technology, two key Massachusetts industries, are often seen as allies -- innovation-driven businesses that depend on a highly educated workforce. But this week they're on opposite sides of a fight playing out in Washington: How to overhaul the nation's patent system.
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Charly Travers offers advice on withstanding the volatility of the biotech sector.
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Researchers have made a biochip that could help replace animal testing for new cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.
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Fool Paul Elliott takes a chance on biotech -- with somebody else's money.
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Researchers anticipate a major recruiting effort and construction boom as California&#39;s new stem-cell experiment gets under way, creating what amounts to an independent West Coast version of the National Institutes of Health.
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A new strategy aiming to attract global investment in the field of life sciences is launched.
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The experiment is part of an explosion in the new field of synthetic biology.
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Take a crash course in genome research: It may not be what you think it is.
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FOR THE MASSACHUSETTS Biotechnology Council, the desire for political access is also a prescription for political controversy.
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Within 50 years, biotech will suffuse everyday life just as computer technology does now -- so says Freeman Dyson.  It's not new, but the futurist describes his vision, from DIY genetic engineering for pigeon fanciers and schoolchildren to green industrial.
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As Boston and Cambridge have become global hubs for life sciences, the demand for laboratory space has skyrocketed.
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Researchers at Merck can use neural stem-cell tech in early stages of drug development. Plus: Pay for eggs OK in Britain. In Bodyhack.
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Synthetic biology turns a bacteriophage into an E. coli eliminator.
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Before Christophe Echeverri decided to spin his postdoctoral project into a biotech company called Cenix BioScience in 1999, he hesitated, fearing the switch from lab coat to business suit was a "move over to ...
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Cambridge Antibody Technology&#39;s (Nasdaq: CATG) legal victory over Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) shows that a biotech David can triumph over a pharmaceutical Goliath.
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Edward M. Rudnic, chairman of the Tech Council of Maryland, has been at the center of the region's biotech business for more than a decade. He sketched out the idea behind MiddleBrook Pharmaceuticals at a friend's dining-room table. If there is a biotech event around town, he's probably speaking or...