Genentech lose Protropin case

Genentech, Inc

How did it start? It began in 1976 with a meeting over a glass of beer between Bob Swanson, then a bright young venture capitalist, and Herb Boyer (UCSF), who with Stan Cohen (Stanford) had just performed some of the key experiments of recombinant DNA technology. The meeting is now immortalized in a brass statue in the new Founders’ Research Center. Genentech was founded later that year, and cl...

Urban and Architectural Development in Amman Downtown between Natural Disasters and Great Heritage Lose: Case Study

The center of Amman (Downtown) is one of the most marvelous sites in Jordan as it represents a wide range of heritage through time and space. However, the Downtown suffers from severe disorders in terms of negative urban development due to the cross cutting cultures between the past and present. Despite of its historical and cultural richness, several factors affected the architectural uniformi...

Farewell to the Lose–Lose Reality of Policing Plant Imports

In an age of free international shipments of mail-ordered seeds and plants, more policing will not stop the global migration of hitchhiking pests. The solution is in a preemptive response based on an internationally coordinated genomic deployment of global biodiversity in the largest breeding project since the "Garden of Eden." This plan will enrich the narrow genetic basis of annual and perenn...

Axons lose their identity

During development, epithelial cells need a little help fi guring out which way is up. < a d d a r t t y p e = " r e l " d o i = " 1 0. 1 0 8 3 / j c b. 2 0 0 8 0 7 1 2 1 " > Jaffe et al.< / a d d a r t > show how a polarizing protein ensures that the cells face the right direction. A newborn epithelial cell in, say, the intestinal lining will polarize so that its apical surface is oriented tow...

Hominids Lose Control