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Gene Jockeys: Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise
Nicolas Rasmussen
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Description for Gene Jockeys: Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise
Hardback. This book captures that heady, fleeting moment when a biologist could expect to do great science through the private sector and be rewarded with both wealth and scientific acclaim. Num Pages: 264 pages, 12, 12 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: KNDH1; KNDP; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
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, historian Nicolas Rasmussen chronicles the remarkable, and often ... Read more
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, historian Nicolas Rasmussen chronicles the remarkable, and often ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421413402
SKU
V9781421413402
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About Nicolas Rasmussen
Nicolas Rasmussen is a professor of humanities at the University of New South Wales. His most recent book is On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine.
Reviews for Gene Jockeys: Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise
Biologist and science historian Nicolas Rasmussen delicately unravels the tangled fibres of discovery, entrepreneurship and lab life in the first decades of genetic engineering... An engaging, ultimately elegiac tale of lost innocence, as researchers struggle with the angel of the search for truth on one shoulder, and the devil of wealth and fame on the other.
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