Gene 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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rasmussen, Nicolas, 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Pharmaceutical biotechnology.
Drugs > Research.
Drug development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
Medecine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Biotechnologie pharmaceutique > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Medicaments > Developpement > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Medicaments > Recherche > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
History, 20th Century > United States.
Entrepreneurship > history > United States.
Technology, Pharmaceutical > history > United States.
Biotechnology > history > United States.
Drug Discovery > history > United States.
Biotechnology > United States > History.
History, 20th Century
Biotechnology > history
Entrepreneurship > history
Technology, Pharmaceutical > history
Drug Discovery > history
Technology, Pharmaceutical > United States > History.
Entrepreneurship > United States > History.
Drug Discovery > United States > History.
Pharmaceutical biotechnology > United States > History > 20th century.
Drug development > United States > History > 20th century.
Drugs > Research > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
United States
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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