51.   Bolder companies, such as OXiGENE, a biotech company, and NeXT, a software firm, are pushing at the frontiers of typography.

52.   Biotech companies consume more money than they produce and are on life-support from investors.

53.   Biotech companies such as Charles River Laboratories and Taconic entered the market, offering quicker turnaround for limited numbers of popular mutant mice.

54.   A biotech company in San Francisco claims it can add genes to mammalian cells by simply injecting them into the bloodstream.

55.   A decade ago, most biotech companies were built around one piece of promising science.

56.   A chip that will automatically create hundreds of cloned embryos at a time is being developed by a Californian biotech company, New Scientist has learned.

57.   A New Jersey biotech company gained the right to sell it for the treatment of a debilitating complication of leprosy.

58.   A small Australian biotech company has patents that it claims cover key methods of diagnosing how susceptible an individual is to particular diseases and tailoring drugs to their needs.

59.   A small Australian biotech company has patents which cover key genetic markers that identify different traits, such as how susceptible an individual is to a certain disease.

60.   A Swampscott biochemist, Sears runs a biotech company called Eicotech, Inc.