It's a fair settlement. This has been litigated for more than four years and we've had some adverse court rulings.

It was a long, hard, difficult negotiation. Merrill thought there was a risk, and we negotiated a settlement.

Perhaps this is not as much money as I would have liked to have gotten. But under the circumstances it's a very good settlement.

Back in 1962, when I had by accident become the supervisor of Roberto Celis in Argentina, it occurred to me that antibody diversity might arise from the joining by disulphide bridges of a variety of small polypeptides in combinatorial patterns.

As far as DNA testing, we're just at the beginning of that universe. Pretty soon, though, we'll know whether someone is predisposed to cancer, alcoholism, obesity, baldness and who knows what else.

Besides, there are privacy laws on the books, both state and federal, so there's no way they'd win. It makes you wonder what they're really worried about.