One of the things that made many scientists in the 1980s and 1990s resistant to involvement in biotech ventures was the perception that it didn’t fit with the image of the disinterested researcher who was...

It’s easy to imagine what might motivate an investigator to start a company. Getting a technology into the hands of people who could use it, developing a drug to treat a disease, or simply wanting...

There were many scientists in the 1980s and 1990s who resisted commercialization. They saw it as a threat to the integrity of science and regarded scientists who were involved in commercial enterprises with suspicion. Other...

In the 1980s, the idea of serious academic scientists founding biotechnology companies struck many researchers as strange, and even suspicious. There was a lot of fear that scientists were doing something vaguely unprofessional, even problematic....

To what extent do the tools drive the research? If what you have is a really cool hammer, you may well lose interest in everything that doesn’t look like a nail. Steve Blose, co-founder and...

A life sciences discovery can reach the public in many different forms. Simply as news, as in the case of pure research, or as a drug, or even as a cosmetic product. Is any one...

As he was developing the science behind Applied Genetic Inc.’s DNA repair cream, Dimericine, Dan Yarosh contacted Errol Friedberg, “a giant in DNA repair” to talk to him about cloning the bacteriophage gene that produced...