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What’s That Smell?
“In Silicon Valley, about eight o’clock on, there is nothing except the coyotes … and the skunks.”
— San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, on why biotech companies should set up shop in his city instead of the valley
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Beefed Up
For bioinformatics researchers at post-acquisition Hewlett-Packard Labs, bigger appears to be better. Though it’s still in the early days in the merging of cultures and businesses, bioinformaticists at HP’s headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., are already feeling the impact.
Find “Bioinformatics Blooms (Relatively Speaking) at Post-Acquisition HP Labs” by searching: HP Labs
Mighty Mice
A freezer full of mouse sperm might not seem like the strongest foundation on which to build a new company. But Etiologics, a new spinoff from the mammalian genetics lab of the UK’s Medical Research Council, expects it will make an irresistible partner for pharmaceutical companies.
Find “An Army of 5,000 Mutant Mice Helps MRC Spinoff Etiologics Take Drug Research by Storm” by searching: Etiologics
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Modesty, Thy Name Is…
“There is no point spending six months fashioning three fantastic antibodies, you have to have 300 assays in that time. You have to deliver the scale that the market wants. If there is anybody who can make that content, it is us.”
— Kevin Johnson, CTO, Cambridge Antibody Technology, on the company’s effort to spin out an array company
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Tool Time
The publication of the mouse genome sequence offered few surprises for the genomics community. But buried within the densely packed 45-page paper, a new family of bioinformatics
Find “Mouse/Human Genome Analysis Gains from New Crop of Gene Prediction Tools” by searching: mouse/human
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It’s Not (Quite) Brain Surgery
What happens when 80 scientists and NIH officers put their heads together to figure out how to use proteomics technologies to understand the brain? They don’t agree on much, but they highlight the diversity of approaches it takes to study such a complex system.
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