Mittelos Bioscience

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Mittelos Bioscience was the research laboratory that Richard Alpert tried to recruit Juliet to work for in "Not in Portland". She originally had to turn down his offer to work there, saying, sarcastically, that she would only be able to if her ex-husband, Edmund Burke, got hit by a bus. After Edmund actually did get hit by a bus, Richard Alpert came back along with his associate from the company, Ethan, and recruited her again, saying that her job would only be for six months. He originally claimed that the laboratory was based in Portland, Oregon, but then admitted that that was "not quite" true, adding that the location was very remote. Juliet also mentioned that no-one in the medical community had ever heard of Mittelos Bioscience.

30 years earlier, when John Locke was a teenager, Alpert similarly attempted to recruit him to the Island with the lure of a summer program sponsored by a Mittelos Laboratories. John turned down the opportunity.

The entrance of the Herarat Aviation terminal. Juliet arrived there to begin her research contract with Mittelos Bioscience.

Employees

Richard Alpert
Ethan Rom
Juliet Burke (hired later)
Diana (not seen, confirmed Juliet's appointment)

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Trivia

'Mittelos' anagrams: The producers confirmed in the 02/12/07 Podcast the anagram they had hinted at is indeed Mittelos / "Lost Time". On the season 3 blu-ray the producers claimed we will learn how this relates to the Others time off the island.
- OTHER ANAGRAMS INCLUDE: lost item, lost mite, list em to, list me to, it lost me
'Mittelos' is similar to the name of the former Hanso Foundation president and chief technologist, Thomas Mittelwerk.
'Mittelos' is very similar to the German adjective 'mittellos', which means 'fundless', 'lacking money' or literally "without means". The actual word "mittelos" though would literally mean "without a center" in German (although this is not an actual German word).
The image of employees walking outside the laboratory is clearly digitally altered to add in the people.
The photos from the Mittelos presentation (the bikers and the hikers) were taken where LOST films in Hawaii. The bikers appear to be near the clearing where Sayid first tried the radio in Season 1, and the hikers seem to be near the hill which the Tailies had to climb while lifting an unconscious Sawyer. The photographer's website includes the original photos [1]. One of the photos was doctored to replace a "Jurassic Park" sign with a Mittelos company sign [2].
The logo features two hexagons.
'Mittelos' is very similar to the Korean preposition (of place) "밑에로" (pronounced "mee-tay-low") meaning "to go under" something.