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World War II-Style Mobilization Order May Carry RisksAutomaker General Motors Co. and Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Inc. and SpaceX, have offered to make hospital ventilators, and other manufacturers are being called upon by the Trump administration to quickly make 500 million N95 air-filtering respirator masks.March 23, 2020
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Pacific Biosciences' $600 Million Decoder RingOn Apr. 28, in a factory in Menlo Park, Calif., a few black and white machines were being assembled and prepped to go into shipping crates. The machines looked like fancier-than-usual copier equipment. Each was about half the size of a MINI Cooper and adorned with some design flourishes—oversized, glowing power buttons, a slick touchscreen monitor on the side. Still, to look at them you wouldn't know they cost $700,000 a pop, that they're the result of a 14-year, nearly $600 million quest, or thApril 28, 2011