61.   Biotechnology companies have been in a heated competition to find ways to inhibit its function.

62.   Biotechnology companies like Vertex typically announce every nugget of progress to attract investors.

63.   Biotechnology companies want the government to protect them against lawsuits over injuries caused by use of their products.

64.   Blech disclosed the plea agreement in a document he filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington to report his stake in biotechnology company Xechem International Inc.

65.   Besides more research and new medical discoveries, the goal is for more biotechnology companies to add muscle to the area economy.

66.   Big drug companies pay much of the research bills for biotechnology companies and buy the products and services offered by the genomics companies.

67.   Biotechnology companies and plant breeders, who had previously stonewalled the process, joined with negotiators from the industrialized countries to back the plan.

68.   Biotechnology companies are lobbying Congress and the White House on another important issue in the bioterrorism bill.

69.   Biotechnology companies have engineered plants that are resistant to herbicides, making it possible to immerse a field in poisons that kill the weeds without affecting the crop.

70.   Biotechnology companies like Monsanto and Novartis produce genetically engineered soybeans, tomatoes, squash and corn.