Roche vows to keep Genentech culture

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...

Infoway to become more responsive to needs, CEO vows.

Audit logs: to keep or not to keep?

Bio: Christopher Wee is a Researcher in the Computer Security Group at the University of California, Davis, Computer Science Department. His current research interests are intrusion detection, security auditing and Formal policy specifications. Chris has participated in three intrusion detection systems projects: DIDS, a LAN intrusion detection system, GrIDS: a wide-area IDS, and LAFS: a file-s...

Fibroblast Culture Cells Keep Track of Circadian Rhythms

October 2005 | Volume 3 | Issue 10 | e347 | e353 Viewed under a microscope, the coronavirus appears almost beautiful, thanks to the halo-like crown formed by its surface proteins. (“Corona” means “crown” in Latin.) Aesthetics aside, this genus of viruses is responsible for a wide range of animal and human diseases, from the common cold to the deadly severe acute respiratory syndrome, familiarly...

'....officiously to keep alive'.

Modern medical technology has provided powerful tools with which to initiate and sustain life and understandable concern is being expressed about scientists and doctors 'playing God.' The view that 'the clinician's freedom to stop intensive treatment when the probable outcome is severe handicap is part of the package of neonatology" is far from unanimous. The hard facts are, however, that today...