[Triple Word Score]

If it promises to be a very lucrative technology, publishing it in a journal and exposing it to peer review aren't the best first steps. If they've got it they've got it and the market will prove it to the world. They ought to be well advanced in the patent process before getting any publicity.

[camle]

if there IS any patenting to do, I'd bet it's the university's intellectual proerty - not the individual scioentist's (unless they have a real sweetheart of a contract)

the problem is that in order to gain any scientific credibility, it must be peer reviewed. i doubt that any serious investor would put their money into this unless there is a whole lot of proof and acceptance of it's success.

[VOA]

They ought to be well advanced in the patent process before getting any publicity.

For all the socialistic, share-the-world ambience of Minnesota, the University
of Minnesota is fairly aggressive in pursuing patents...well at least in the area
of biological/medical breakthroughs.