In 1999, General Motors adapted a system used w pit of sec- by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to track down diseases and spot outbreaks to the industrial tasks of debugging its cars, and this was expected to eliminate some 9 million claims and is, of save it $1.6 billion in warranty repairs in two years Motorola used the biological code DNA to define cuit patterns on semiconductors. To build a better d effi- turbine, GE built a global team of researchers from Germany, China, India, and the United States, to look for new medicines, Novartis, the Swiss pharma- all, all ceutical company, went to a laboratory in Shanghai oyees, specializing in ancient remedies; and the technology cesses behind Intel's Centrino, now a$5 billion business, was ample, born in an R&D lab in Israe