While drug stocks were up, biotechnology issues generally remained under pressure.

"The New Jersey Supreme Court is the bellwether court of the nation on family law and biotechnology issues," he said in an interview.

The gains among drug stocks failed to carry through to many biotechnology issues, as the Nasdaq Composite index fell 1.58, to 675.04.

Most biotechnology issues also advanced, with Chiron, Genzyme and Biogen each gaining a point or more.

Extensive knowledge of various chemistry and biotechnology issues is required to find out why the plot in many episodes can't be true (if it can't).

On the Nasdaq market yesterday, where the composite index dropped 25.15 points, many of the most popular computer and biotechnology issues fell several points.

There is another side to the agricultural biotechnology issue.

Canada has agreed to resolve the difference in exchange for a bilateral regulatory dialogue on biotechnology issues.

The Nasdaq Composite index was up 11.06 points, or 1.7 percent, to 662.46, led by the large computer and biotechnology issues.

The big drug companies have become especially attractive as a source of capital in the past year, as investors on Wall Street became disenchanted with biotechnology issues.