61.   A Stoughton biotech company even offered to send artificial skin.

62.   A. The biotech companies are all very expensive.

63.   After a year when money-losing biotech companies struggled to line up cash, Icos Corp. faced shareholders supremely unworried.

64.   Akkadix, a California biotech company, plans to use bacteria-produced proteins and their cognate genes to genetically engineer crop plants protected against pathogens.

65.   Alta Partners will invest primarily in West Coast information technology, media, medical products and biotech companies.

66.   But biotech companies say they have just as much at stake.

67.   But biotech companies, now paying about that for lab space in Cambridge, also customarily cover their own electricity and gas and taxes.

68.   But biotech companies are working on genetically modified crops to produce food oils lower in artery-clogging fats, or tomatoes rich in cancer-fighting substances.

69.   But despite their languid development, biotech companies look to provide valuable tools to some large, lucrative markets.

70.   But at least one biotech company in Seattle is going a different route.