Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Consortium set out to test the intervention in more settings.
In 1955 the consortium set down regulations governing the way the cheese must be made.
The consortium, set up by students with the backing of several labor unions, now has 45 universities as members.
Government officials in Turkey and oil industry executives said three other international companies were close to joining the Western consortium set up to build the pipeline.
A task force has been drawing up ideas for a pharmaceutical industry effort somewhat analogous to Sematech, a consortium set up by the semiconductor industry.
On Tuesday, Intel announced a similar arrangement with Symbian, a consortium set up by Ericsson, Psion, Nokia and Matsushita Electric Industrial that has created an operating system for wireless devices.
This deal, coming after a similar agreement last year between Palm and Nokia, could be a blow to Symbian, a consortium set up by Ericsson, Psion, Nokia and Matsushita Electric Industrial.
Regulators were told that a consortium set up to own and manage Aurora would be independent of Crédit Lyonnais, as both federal and state laws required.
Boasting of unlimited funds, a choice of six countries to work in and an embarrassment of scientific expertise, the Antinori private human cloning consortium set out its stall at a seminar in Rome's Institute of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
One regional consortium set up to help GPs' commissioning groups, the Arden & Greater East Midlands Partnership, paid KPMG more than a quarter of a million pounds a month for the first six months of 2014.
