US biotechnology company Chiron (Emeryville, CA) has agreed to buy PathoGenesis (Seattle, WA) for around $700 million in an all-cash deal that provides Chiron with revenue from a high-growth ...

The Bay Area has not only produced the world's biggest biotechnology firms—Genentech (S. San Francisco, CA), Chiron (Emeryville, CA), and Amgen (Thousand Oaks, CA)—it has also nurtured ...

Cetus Corporation, and not Genentech (as stated in your article1), was the first US biotechnology company. Cetus was established across the bay in Berkeley in 1971, five years before Genentech.