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Miller Lecture Series \ Researcher: Biotechnology to billion-dollar force by year 2000 By Olivier Uyttebrouck Staff Writer By the year 2000, biotechno logy will be a $(30 billion to $200 billion industry and will be the driving force behind such areas as agriculture, computer science, medicine and pharmaceuticals, a researcher said here Thursday. Dr. Baldwin H. Tom, associate director of the Bioprocessing Re search Center in Houston, spoke at MSC Political Forum’s E.L. Miller Lecture Series about the promising areas of biotechno logy. Regarding computers, Tom said: “I like this area because it’s so wild that I need to tell you about it. There are university sci entists developing what are called ‘biochips’ that primarily use or ganic compounds ... as signaling devices in computer-like systems. “Because of the three-dimen sional configuration of proteins and enzymes . . . they’ve calcu lated that these biochips would be 1 billion times faster than the pre sent silicon chips.” Tom noted that a Houston "Because of the three-di mensional configuration of proteins and enzymes . . . they've calculated that these biochips would be 1 billion times faster than the present silicon chips. " Dr. Baldwin H. lorn firm is commercializing a tech nique for raising livestock animals to jumbo sizes by raising them on growth hormone. The firm is raising “super-rab bits, super-pigs and super-cattle” that grow to be twice the size of their litter mates while they eat only 30 percent more food, he saicl. “Any biological material exist ing in nature can theoretically be exploited for our own use,” Tom said. For example, he said, scien tists may one day be able to use the web-spinning gene in spiders to produce a new kind of |B having the qualities of streoil, and water-resistance that webs have. H Tom’s area of specialization^ bioprocessing, which uses anj e , technique called electrophotjM to isolate and purify such bio!*^ cal products as proteins and ML man hormones. 1 om’s research unit at thel| re versity of Texas Health .V: Lj li Center Institute has one of fa ul two machines in the country:r u( ) are designed to perform eltctB phoresis on a large scale in s[ L |\ lie said. ijjy Electrophoresis is a technmL ol running an electric cumR. tin i >11y 11 ,m < ii y.inu ailnm f separate out the valuable (ijp pounds from the “garbage,"TtB t s.,ut be, In s | >.n c. i u s^.iiik ((im|)i, Lfj, (an be isolated and purifiedt(i t f extent impossible nn raiih.n uj ( , the I ■ H i e .it hi a\ its (lani.uie jjjj, and proteins during the punfM^ don process, l orn said. MatetiBg also can be processed liundttr of times f aster in space than can be on earth, he said. mie The 0 to -St f >■ 1 (■< Group turns to Democrots to nad; English as official language ofU i i<h An’tlil Hlr Ttl e AUSTIN (AP) — The American Ethnic Coalition, which convinced the State Republican Executive Committee to adopt a resolution calling for adoption of English as the official language, now has set its sights on state Democrats. “I have confidence that even though it may take awhile, the Dem ocrats are going to come into line with the Republicans because it’s so logical,” said Bill Toney of Nacog doches, chairman of the Democratic caucus of the American Ethnic Co alition. Texas Democratic Chairman Bob Slagle Thursday gave the resolution little chance of winning approval from the State Democratic Executive Committee. He said supporters of the resolu tion seem like “a bunch of people who are probably paranoid and who believe there’s a bunch of people in dark, dank cellars plotting to make them speak Spanish.” The American Ethnic Coalition, largely a Texas organization, was formed on the Fourth of July. Its chairman, Lou Zaeske of Houston, said the organization’s purpose is “to prevent the division of America along ethnic lines.” A constitutional amendment mak ing English the nation’s official lan guage would go a long way toward preventing the division, Zaeske said. “Every other ethnic minority took pride in embracing English as the the language of their new country,” said Zaeske, an engineer. “But now we are being increasingly populated by immigrants, manyofthemi who feel entitled to beeducan live their whole lives in theta of their native countries.’’ The coalition indudes \1| thousand” membciv all ni HL’S can trace their families toitie an Hi mips, /.icskc s.iid. /.icT- eblaw is half-C/ech, and, “I speaktnl'en \siili .i 1111< isi mi act cut at all. jnd I) ulti-m I ■ ■ ’ ■, . led pinin' Bui sj mosi recently taughtcrinuoaljBim .ii ( .i ambling Stale I'lmei' Bt Rk Louisiana, said his attempts toy I fte l.m piagc resolmkills at pit Und .1 counts Democratic convetitioaB p Texas were rebuffed. wed 01 "I believe that 1 was santtawiss 1 by school teachers and profedtl be Toney said. 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