Biosyn

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BioSyn is a business that features in Jurassic Park.

History

Biosyn was a genetics company based in Cupertino, CA, and was headed by Bill Steingarten that came to be a rival of InGen that was not above using industrial espionage to get what it wanted. Represented by Lewis Dodgson.

Primarily competing with fellow genetic engineering company International Genetics Technologies (InGen), Biosyn tried to keep up with their competition through their head of product development, Dr. Lewis Dodgson. Dodgson himself had a checkered history, and extended such a reputation under his work at Biosyn, including an incident where he introduced a modified form of the rabies virus to farmers in Chile without the latters’ knowledge or consent. Dodgson also operated in corporate espionage schemes for Biosyn, which involved recovering technology from rival companies and re-engineering their prototypes in such a way his organization avoided possible lawsuits. Two notable incidents occurred because of these activities.

Biosyn sent Dr. Lewis Dodgson to meet with Dennis Nedry, a computer programmer, to give him the transportation device for the embryos, paying Nedry $750,000 up front and then $50,000 for each of the 15 embryos and for each viable embryo an additional $50,000 extra for a total of $1.5 Million dollars in total for his help. Biosyn never received the precious embryos. After Dennis Nedry shuts down the park later leading to complete disaster, he enters the Dilophosaurus territory, which has a beach at which he planned to hand over the embryos to a Biosyn accomplice. Nedry is killed by a Dilophosaurus, and the canister containing the embryos is buried in mud, completely ruining Biosyn's chance of success. The result was several deaths, the destruction of the Isla Nublar facilities, and the bankruptcy of InGen.

After the Jurassic Park Incident, Biosyn has tried various attempts at claiming InGen's technology for themselves. They paid $500,000 to the Dai-Ichi bureau to buy InGen which was going bankrupt, but the Japanese creditors would not sell. Howard King, a biologist of Biosyn, was about to be fired because his research on blood-coagulation factors failed. But Dodgson offered to help him if Howard would agree with his espionage. Biosyn has hired the famous scientist George Baselton to improve its image. Dodgson, King, and Baselton travel to Isla Sorna to claim the discovery of the dinosaurs. The company plans to use dinosaurs as their prime testing organism because the dinosaurs are artificial they probably did not have an ethical value. The team also tries to steal dinosaur eggs, which utterly fails.

Since the destruction of Isla Nublar in 2018, Biosyn offered to house the displaced animals in order to study their prehistoric immune systems in the hopes of finding better treatments for diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer's, or autoimmune, and at some point began cloning their own animals. By 2022, 20 displaced prehistoric species from Isla Nublar and Isla Sorna were held within the valley. They have been known to clone extinct animals, with only pure DNA without splicing it with others, in order to see their own evolution. After the incident in 2022, their valley was designated a sanctuary for the dinosaurs by a United Nations decree. There they will live free from human interference. Biosyn is likely now defunct due to testimonies from Malcolm, Ramsay Cole, Alan Grant, Ellie Sattler and others, for causing the locust pandemic.

Overview

The company was known for stealing ideas from other scientists. It was also the only biotech company that employs more lawyers and saboteurs skilled in corporate espionage then scientists.

The main building of the corporation stood in Cupertino, California. The company has a research facility and sanctuary in the Dolomite Mountain range of Italy.

Members

• Bill Steingarten :
• Jeff Rossiter :
• Lewis Dodgson :
• Howard King : a male employee who was a biologist that lost his credibility when his research on blood-coagulation factors failed and funding removed. He later served as an assistant to Dr. Lewis Dodgson.

Notes

• Biosyn was created by Michael Crichton where it featured in the setting of the Jurassic Park universe.

In other media

Television

• In Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, Biosyn appeared in the setting of the animated television series. Lewis Dodgson, now the Head of Research for Biosyn, travels to Isla Nublar to make a deal with Daniel Kon, the president of Mantah Corp, for Mantah Corp's mind control chips. During the mission to capture several dinosaurs, Dodgson inadvertently finds and retrieves the old Barbasol can containing the embryos that Dennis Nedry had stolen for him twenty-three years before. Lana Molina attempts to steal Dodgson's pack containing the can and Biosyn's entire prospectus to sell on the black market, but she is stopped by Kenji Kon and eaten by a pack of Compies. Dodgson subsequently finalizes Biosyn's deal with Mantah Corp and is promised production and delivery of the mind control chips within two weeks. However, the plot is thwarted by Kenji and his friends, leading to Daniel's arrest. Nevertheless, Biosyn is left in possession of the dinosaur embryos that Nedry had stolen for them decades before.

Films

Video games

Appearances

• Jurassic Park:
• Jurassic World:

External Links

• Jurassic Park Wiki Entry

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