A biotechnology expert might see Company Y's breakthrough coming before other investors do.
"It has been a cakewalk for the industry in terms of getting products approved," said Dr. Margaret Mellon, a molecular biologist and biotechnology expert at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Biotechnology expert discourse rarely addresses these wider issues.
Agricultural biotechnology expert Roger Beachy, president of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St .Louis, Missouri, is also enthusiastic.
MANY health sciences companies are also hiring, especially those specializing in medical equipment and devices and, to a lesser degree, certain biotechnology companies, experts say.
Forbes assembled its list by interviewing biotechnology industry experts and obtaining estimates of average price per patient from the companies themselves or Wall Street analysts who cover them.
According to a commentary in the June 2009 issue of Nature Biotechnology authored by 24 experts in communication, law, and journalism, media fragmentation and the rise of ideologically slanted websites are perpetuating gridlocked opinions in science, just as they are in politics.
So "researchers in other countries have a double advantage," said Rebecca S. Eisenberg, an expert in biotechnology and patent law at the University of Michigan.
While a senator and self-styled expert on biotechnology issues, Gore praised Algeny, the bizarre diatribe by anti-biotechnology zealot Jeremy Rifkin and is quoted on its cover, calling it "an important book" and an "insightful critique of the changing way in which mankind views nature".
Some experts say the biotechnology companies must develop crops that offer more for the consumer or the food companies, not just the farmer.
Experts on the biotechnology industry predict that these fish will be the first genetically modified animal to make it onto American dinner plates, alongside genetically engineered vegetables like corn and potatoes, which have been available for several years.
