Screen LibraryGene jockeys : life science and the rise of biotech enterprise /
"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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Johns Hopkins University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Baltimore : |
| Publication Dates: | 2014. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"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 approved for medical use in the United States: human insulin, human growth hormone, alpha interferon, erythropoietin, and tissue plasminogen activator. Drawing on corporate documents obtained from patent litigation, as well as interviews with the ambitious biologists who called themselves gene jockeys, h |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-194) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781421413402 (hardcover : acid-free paper) : 142141340X (hardcover : acid-free paper) |
| Index Number: | RS380 |
| CLC: | F471.267-09 |
| Call Number: | F471.267-09/R225 |