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How To Sterilize Mad Cow Disease Contaminated Waste?

Level - Undergrad

You work for Biodyne Inc, based out of Medina, OH (NASDAQ Symbol PBL). Biodyne stock has plummeted along with the rest of the high tech stock market. This makes investors unhappy. Thus management is looking for new markets to help Biodyne to reclaim its position as a biotech innovator.
Your select team of bioengineers has been selected to work out the design parameters for the disposal of waste infected with Mad Cow Disease. Our illustrious management team, after reading much of the popular literature and performing many spreadsheet calculations, has determined that there is a one billion dollar a year market for the sterilization of such waste. While the waste sterilization market is a mature one, this new potential market opportunity presents itself primarily due to the fact that incineration alone is not enough to render Mad Cow infected waste safe. We need to formulate and evaluate methodologies for the effective sterilization of such waste.
Management at Biodyne has the fullest confidence that you will use your advanced knowledge of macromolecules and proteins to accomplish your task within the next two weeks. However, we do realize that your task will not be an easy one but know that you will be inspired by our company motto – “FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION!” to attain complete success in the most topical (and potentially lucrative) of topics.