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Blue Heron Biotechnology Will Present at Invest Northwest.


BOTHELL, Wash. -- Blue Heron blue heron
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Any of several varieties of heron with blue or blue-gray plumage.
 Biotechnology, Inc. announced today that it will present at the upcoming Invest Northwest(R), CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  and Investor Forum on April 26, 2005 in Seattle, Washington This page is protected from moves until disputes have been resolved on the .
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. The conference will provide a forum for members of the investment community and CEOs and senior executives from selected life science companies based in the US Pacific Northwest an opportunity to meet and network. Blue Heron Bio competes in the rapidly growing gene synthesis Gene synthesis is the process of synthesizing an artificially designed gene into a physical DNA sequence.

Gene synthesis was first demonstrated by Har Gobind Khorana in 1970 for a short artificial gene.
 market. Life science researchers can save time and money by outsourcing to Blue Heron Bio to receive made-to-order molecules for use in laboratory research.

Blue Heron Bio's Senior Vice President, Molly Hoult, will describe how Blue Heron Bio became a leader in the gene synthesis market and the substitution economics that drive market adoption. In the last four years, hundreds of researchers have chosen Blue Heron Bio to make the genes they need for their research, including researchers at 16 of the 20 top biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies worldwide. Economies of scale and technology breakthroughs have enabled a 6 fold drop in price which has made Blue Heron's GeneMaker(R) gene synthesis service less expensive than other alternatives.

The presentation will also highlight the company's efficient, economical, and reliable gene synthesis technology, GeneMaker(R). Blue Heron Bio's proprietary GeneMaker gene synthesis platform chemically synthesizes any DNA sequence DNA sequence Genetics The precise order of bases–A,T,G,C–in a segment of DNA, gene, chromosome, or an entire genome. See Base pair, Base sequence analysis, Chromosome, Gene, Genome.  of any size with perfect accuracy. GeneMaker incorporates several proprietary technologies including error correction methods and a solid-phase gene assembly instrument. Because GeneMaker is fully automated, it can synthesize To create a whole or complete unit from parts or components. See synthesis.  hundreds of genes simultaneously.

About Blue Heron Biotechnology

Blue Heron Biotechnology, Inc., the leading provider of gene synthesis services, was founded in 1999 to accelerate discovery research by industrializing the manufacture of custom reagents. Blue Heron Bio's proprietary GeneMaker(R) synthesizes any gene, regardless of sequence or size, with 100% accuracy guaranteed. Today, hundreds of researchers from pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies Top 100 Biotechnology Companies
The following is a list of the top 100 biotechnology companies ranked by revenue. The first nine companies qualify for the list of the top 50 pharmaceutical companies.
 as well as academic and government laboratories buy thousands of synthetic genes from Blue Heron Bio.
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