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Biotech / Medical : Diversa Corporation (DVSA) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tuck who wrote (46)	10/3/2001 7:48:28 PM
From: A.J. Mullen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 144

OK, some more local information I have a couple of occasional drinking buddies who work for Diversa. They seem motivated and believe in the company. Well, one seems that way, I haven't spoken with the other about Diversa. Two things bother me, the florescent screening and the patent on whole communities. I thought ABSC had the patent on florescent technology. I find it hard to credit a shotgun approach in which, rather than identifying species, individually determining the genome, and obtaining patents on specific genes with known function, they claim protection on an entire library obtained from a specific community. I would think that such a patent would be very hard to defend. I agree with Nigel that the high temperature enzyme might be very useful. Ashley