The jury in federal court in Wheeling ruled against attorneys Robert Peirce and Louis Raimond, as well as radiologist Ray Harron, a physician who supplied diagnoses for tens of thousands of asbestos claims for plaintiff lawyers.
The companies are a bit cagey about the details, but according to Robert Dorsch, who works on the DuPont side of things, and Ray Chandra, of Genencor, the technology involves inserting four genes taken from various species of bacteria and yeast into industrial strains of E. coli.