It includes DeCode Genetics (nasdaq: DCGN - news - people), the company that made news with its plan to use the genealogy of the people of Iceland as a tool for genetic research, and Exelixis (nasdaq: EXEL - news - people), which uses model systems like fruit flies to figure out what genes do in human beings.

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For one thing, paywall experiments like the one at The New York Times Co. have started to bear fruit, showing that there might be a workable economic model for papers in the age of digital distribution.

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