Guilford has licensed rights to the work and is well along in developing druglike chemicals based on it.

FORBES: Repairing The Brain

Alkermes, which specializes in developing technologies that deliver drug chemicals to the body, figured out a way to turn the Risperdal pill into a shot, branded Risperdal Consta.

FORBES: Alkermes' Unjust Punishment

The risk is particularly high for children, whose brains are still developing and are therefore especially vulnerable to the chemicals.

FORBES: The Chemicals In Your Couch May Pose Serious Health Risks

In this case, the DNA was constructed for Microbia , another Cambridge biotech that is developing drugs and creating microbes that can be used in manufacturing chemicals.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Some biotech entrepreneurs wonder if big firms with interests in both agricultural biotechnology and conventional pesticides could ever be persuasive advocates of the new science that their smaller peers are developing, since it could well undermine sales of their most popular chemicals.

ECONOMIST: Biotechnology