1.   BioTransplant and Focal typify a growing number of small biopharmaceutical and medical device companies the recent biotech boom left behind.

2.   But instrument companies such as Waters and the larger PE Biosystems Group of Norwalk, Conn., do benefit from the biotech boom.

3.   More graduates and more programs are needed, city advocates said, if New Haven is to fully share in the biotech boom.

4.   One difference, he noted, is that the biotech boom affected a whole, if infant, industry, while Netscape is still unusual.

5.   Otherwise, as the biotech boom demonstrated, soaring stock prices can come back to earth in a hurry.

6.   Some Cambridge residents complain the high-tech, biotech boom has robbed the city of its shabby-chic charm.

7.   Will the same turn out to be true for the biotech stock boom?

8.   But at a BIO-hosted media brunch over genetically engineered papaya daiquiris, optimism over an economic and scientific biotech boom abounded.