What came first, the chicken or the...T-Rex?

This months Wired has an interesting article on the battle between biologists and geneticists when in comes to interpreting genetic information found in fossils. Apparently, a biologist had discovered that once run through a mass spectrometer, T-Rex collagen had matched the collagen present in chickens, and had an article published in Science magazine with his discovery. This lead to a huge uproar from people in the field of bioinformatics who said that Asara's paper did not include enough statistical data to back up his claim. Who knew there could be so much drama in science? I wont ruin the ending, but the story is great, and people are arguing its giving a lot of credibility to the field of bioinformatics. Read it here. [Article]

Biotech's Merger Madness!

So just in case you haven't heard, basically every Biotech company has been bought out by a larger Biotech. Ok lets see how many i can come up with off the top of my head...Roche bought Ventana which bought Spring Bioscience, Thermo merged with Fisher Scientific (and managed to buy Lab Vision somewhere along the line), Leica bought Novacastra, i mean, the list goes on. My question is, i just read a Wired article on"The New Economy" that is supposed to arrive after this recession is over, and it talks about how in the future the most profitable and successful companies will be those that ha ve a niche market. Does that mean these ultra-huge biotechs that are emerging are doomed? Is the era of corporate Pac-man over?