51.   But the mapping of the genome has emboldened biotech firms to attempt large-scale efforts to ramp up the business of early disease detection.

52.   But so far, most biotech firms and researchers have little to show for the genomic revolution except more avenues of research.

53.   Can a Bay Area biotech firm make money buying hand-me-down drugs?

54.   Cancer is enormously important to biotech firms.

55.   Clarke said these scientific distinctions have blurred over time because drug firms now develop protein remedies and biotech firms often create chemical pills.

56.   Chapela led opposition to the controversial research deal between Berkeley and the biotech firm Novartis.

57.   Commercial biotech firms are evaluating proteomics tools but have not seemed in a rush to embrace this new wave.

58.   Companies interpret this requirement quite differently, as is evident by watching two Bay Area biotech firms play the quiet game.

59.   Consider the acquisition of trendy biotech firms by plodding pharmaceutical companies, or of nimble merchant banks in London by lumbering bureaucracies such as Deutsche Bank.

60.   Cytokinetics is one of a handful of biotech firms that has designed automated systems for peeking inside living cells.