Node: DuPont ; company emblematic of chemical industrial innovation, from Carrothers-Nylon onward. In grade school I did a color acrylic paint poster with DuPont slogan "Better Things for Better Living through Chemistr KW: DuPont plastics; labware; Todd was setting up a microbial genetics research program at Du Pont. [in 1990's DuPont no longer regarded itself as a Chemical but a Biotech company. So much for "better Things for Better Living *thorugh Chemistry*"] I ask hom to get his company into the business of plastic labware, that can be autoclaved. jl 12/20/98