"It used to be more taboo, and there were some questions of business getting in the way of pure science, " says Marjorie Hunter, director of the University of Rochester's Office of Technology Transfer.

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Jonathan Soderstrom, who runs Yale University's technology-transfer office and is the president of the Association of University Technology Managers, says that the problem of raising money has never been as acute as now.

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"Every university that does genetic research potentially infringes their patents, " says Brent Brown of the University of Utah's technology-transfer office, which took its license in May.

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