Word: biotechs
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While the decline of the two-parent family in Germany may worry traditionalists, it has proved a boon for a growing number of biotech companies specializing in paternity tests. "Since 1998 the number of orders has increased tenfold," boasts Kirsten Thelen, co-founder of Wiesbaden's ID Lab, which prepared 4,000 DNA fingerprints last year. Says Thelen: "The demand has existed for a long time, but now word has got around that there is an affordable way to obtain proof of parenthood...
...surprisingly, the DNA labs receive the bulk of their work from men trying to prove or disprove paternity. Yet an increasing number of moms, most of them single, also make use of the tests. In about 10% of the cases, the biotech firms are consulted "by grown-up children who want to make sure who their parents really are," says Thelen. "In those instances the client's biography usually shows some unclear points...
...collecting information on them. Today, he estimates, for every company that wants help digging up proprietary information, seven come to him for assistance in protecting their data. And, notes Nolan, there's a new kind of adversary: terrorists who want to use Western technology against the West. Pharmaceutical and biotech companies in particular should raise their level of awareness, says Jan Herring. "There's a very strong business objective [in] staying on top of these terrorism threats, particularly in bioterrorism," he says. "For instance, someone could come into a company and begin buying products or technology that could be applied...
...high-tech industries boomed, CI grew with them. Biotech and pharmaceutical companies have become especially skilled. "Because of all the patent information that's available, we know well in advance what is in someone else's pipeline," says SCIP president Mark Little. "You can see some of these things coming a long time away...
...newly formed company moved from Chan’s room in Boston 13 miles away to Woburn, a hotbed for biotech and Internet startup companies. Five years after hiring their first employees with Chan’s credit card, the brothers have raised $25 million in venture capital...