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Last July, during the presidential campaign, Joe Biden promised the universal health care advocate Ady Barkan that he wouldn’t let intellectual property laws stand in the way of worldwide access to coronavirus vaccines.
“The World Health Organization is leading an unprecedented global effort to promote international cooperation in the search for Covid-19 treatments and vaccines,” said Barkan. “But Donald Trump has refused to join that effort, cutting America off from the rest of the world. If the U.S. discovers a vaccine first, will you commit to sharing that technology with other countries, and will you ensure there are no patents to stand in the way of other countries and companies mass-producing those lifesaving vaccines?”
An E.V. Start-Up Backed by UPS Does Away With the Assembly Line
Arrival, a developer of electric vans and buses, says it has come up with a cheaper way to build vehicles in small factories. But can it deliver on that promise?
Arrival, a London developer of electric vans and buses, is creating what it calls highly automated microfactories.Credit.Andrew Testa for The New York Times
April 21, 2021Updated 1:01 p.m. ET
A small electric vehicle company backed by UPS wants to replace the assembly lines automakers have used for more than a century with something radically different small factories employing a few hundred workers.
Biologic drugs rack up billions in annual U.S. sales. Here’s a solution to lower the costs.
By Peter B. Bach and Mark R. Trusheim
Dr. Bach is the director of the Drug Pricing Lab and Center for Health Policy and Outcomes at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Mr. Trusheim is a visiting scientist at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management.
March 15, 2021
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For around two decades, Roche’s breast cancer drug Herceptin has prolonged the lives of people with breast cancer, and AbbVie’s immunosuppressive drug Humira has eased the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis patients.
Bruce Meyers, Who Built the First Fiberglass Dune Buggy, Dies at 94
His creation revolutionized off-road riding. But he fell victim to companies that knocked off his design for kits that turned Beetles into buggies.
Bruce Meyers in his invention, the Meyers Manx, which ignited the dune buggy craze in the 1960s.Credit.Eric Rickman/The Enthusiast Network, via Getty Images
March 6, 2021
Bruce Meyers, who used his skills as a boat builder to invent the first fiberglass dune buggy, igniting the late-1960s craze for off-road riding, and thrived until copycats flooded the market, died on Feb. 19 at his home in Valley Center, Calif. He was 94.
Several justices seemed concerned that judges should have been appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate. But there was no consensus about how to fix that flaw.