Gene Jockeys: Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise

by Nicolas Rasmussen

The scientific scramble to discover the first generation of drugs created through genetic engineering.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 142141340X
• ISBN13: 9781421413402
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher