Biotech, Patents, vaccines Luke Timmerman wrote: One of the world’s best-selling vaccines, Merck’s Gardasil, is quietly producing some serious money for an unexpected benefactor—the University of Washington. Thanks to some hard-fought patent litigation from the 1990s that ended up ...

Software, people, Legal Luke Timmerman wrote: Linden Rhoads, the high-tech entrepreneur hired last summer to help the University of Washington spin out more innovations into the business world, is bringing in new blood from the corporate world into key staff roles at her office. The UW has recruited...

Biotech, Drugs, Life Sciences Luke Timmerman wrote: Some of the stories Lynn Rose told me the other week made me laugh out loud, and want to cry in mercy. One story was about the academic researcher who ran a single experiment in an animal species that panned out. This scientist, who shall remain na...