Gene jockeys : life science and the making of the first biotech drugs /
Nicolas Rasmussen.
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource (pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9781421413419
Drugs--Research--History--United States--20th century. Drug development--History--United States--20th century. Pharmaceutical biotechnology--History--United States--20th century. Drug Discovery--History.--United States Technology, Pharmaceutical--History.--United States History, 20th Century--United States. Entrepreneurship--History.--United States Biotechnology--History.--United States