Genzyme deal set to alter biotech landscape

摘要

When the biotech company Genzyme first opened for business in 1981 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it shared a building with a discount women's clothing store. "In the elevators you would see women looking for bargains, mixed in with these corporate types in suits, and technicians carrying mice in cages," recalls Harvey Lodish of Cambridge's Whitehead Institute, who was one of the company's founding scientists.