1.   Human Genome Sciences gain boosted shares of other biotechnology companies, many of which are based in southern Maryland.

2.   Many millions of dollars have flooded into new biotechnology companies in pursuit of interferon and other potential moneyspinners.

3.   Most of the people sitting on supposedly independent government advisory bodies have direct links to biotechnology companies.

4.   Neoprobe, a biotechnology company, has developed a technology that makes it easier for surgeons to target only cancer cells.

5.   That disappointment can undermine the share value of some biotechnology companies, who lack earnings or revenue from other products.

6.   The Dutch biotechnology company, Gist Brocades, is working on a scheme by which pigs could be fed with a product deriving from their own waste.

7.   This aims to protect the biotechnology companies which may otherwise be forced to share the benefits of research and patents with countries in which genetic material is found.

8.   Amgen, a biotechnology company in Thousand Oaks, Calif., quickly began moving rapidly from research with animals to research with people.

9.   Among European ADRs, those of British biotechnology companies tumbled after Celltech Plc and Merck and Co. halted development of a promising asthma treatment.

10.   Amelio serves on the board of Chiron Corp., a leading biotechnology company based in Emeryville, Calif.