1.   A small cottage industry of biotechnology firms has sprung up to investigate this, using a variety of methods.

2.   She was hired as Marketing director for a biotechnology firm.

3.   Analysts said Monday that Lance was a perfect choice to bolster the ailing biotechnology firm, which has been plagued by problems in getting products to market.

4.   As senior scientist for a biotechnology firm, Shih and his experiments on zebra fish offer clues about how human tissues grow.

5.   As part of his treatment, doctors are injecting a synthetically created gene, manufactured by the San Diego biotechnology firm Vical, directly into his prostate gland.

6.   Avax Technologies Inc., a Kansas City biotechnology company, said Thursday that it had completed its acquisition of Genopoietic SA, a privately held French biotechnology firm.

7.   Biotechnology firms also rose.

8.   A drug called Cialis will be marketed by a partnership between Eli Lilly and the Icos Corp., a biotechnology firm in Bothell, Wash.

9.   Advanced Cell Technology was the first U.S. biotechnology firm to turn a human egg into an embryo using adult DNA instead of fertilization.

10.   Closer to home, a Cambridge, Mass. biotechnology firm is marketing a hair-analysis kit aimed at parents who suspect their children of abusing drugs.