Anti-biotech activist group Center for Food Safety then filed suit against APHIS, alleging that its EA was inadequate under NEPA and demanding a full environmental impact statement (EIS).

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But he has also brought in Corey Goodman, a well-known scientist and biotech entrepreneur, to run a new research center, essentially a biotech-within-Pfizer, in San Francisco.

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His latest gambit is closer to home but equally bold: turning a run-down Seattle neighborhood called South Lake Union into a center for biotech and life- science research.

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Tara Millspaugh, a 39-year-old who works in biotech, refuses to eat the gooey center pieces and had all but given up baking brownies until she discovered a pan that fashioned every square to come with a dense, chewy edge: the Edge Brownie Pan.

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To move the gene therapy work forward, Kirk inked a deal in January for a 12% stake of Ziopharm Oncology, a biotech company led by former Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center surgeon Jonathan Lewis.

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Warrell, who was a top oncologist at New York City's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center before taking the helm at Genta, a biotech firm based in Berkeley Heights, N.

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To quickly compare the genes, the Genomics Center is using gene sequencing technology developed by Lynx Therapeutics, a biotech partner of Hoechst in Hayward, Calif.

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