Gene jockeys : life science and the making of the first biotech drugs

Gene jockeys : life science and the making of the first biotech drugs / Nicolas Rasmussen.

"The biotech arena emerged in the 1970s and 1980s, when molecular biology, one of the fastest-moving areas of basic science in the twentieth century, met the business world. Gene Jockeys is a detailed study of the biotech projects that led to five of the first ten recombinant DNA drugs to be ap...

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Main Author: Rasmussen, Nicolas, 1962- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Drugs > Research > United States > History > 20th century.
Drug development > United States > History > 20th century.
Pharmaceutical biotechnology > United States > History > 20th century.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
Drug development
Drugs > Research
Pharmaceutical biotechnology
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Biology, industry, and the Cold War
  • The insulin trophy
  • Growing pains : commercial strains on a way of life
  • The interferon derby : markets in credit, tournaments of value
  • EPO : the making of the biotech blockbuster
  • tPA the end of the beginning.

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