Genentech

Genentech
Title Genentech PDF eBook
Author Sally Smith Hughes
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 231
Release 2011-09-21
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0226359204

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In the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of Wall Street, raising over $38 million in its initial public stock offering. Lacking marketed products or substantial profit, the firm nonetheless saw its share price escalate from $35 to $89 in the first few minutes of trading, at that point the largest gain in stock market history. Coming at a time of economic recession and declining technological competitiveness in the United States, the event provoked banner headlines and ignited a period of speculative frenzy over biotechnology as a revolutionary means for creating new and better kinds of pharmaceuticals, untold profit, and a possible solution to national economic malaise. Drawing from an unparalleled collection of interviews with early biotech players, Sally Smith Hughes offers the first book-length history of this pioneering company, depicting Genentech’s improbable creation, precarious youth, and ascent to immense prosperity. Hughes provides intimate portraits of the people significant to Genentech’s science and business, including cofounders Herbert Boyer and Robert Swanson, and in doing so sheds new light on how personality affects the growth of science. By placing Genentech’s founders, followers, opponents, victims, and beneficiaries in context, Hughes also demonstrates how science interacts with commercial and legal interests and university research, and with government regulation, venture capital, and commercial profits. Integrating the scientific, the corporate, the contextual, and the personal, Genentech tells the story of biotechnology as it is not often told, as a risky and improbable entrepreneurial venture that had to overcome a number of powerful forces working against it.

Genetic Engineering News

Genetic Engineering News
Title Genetic Engineering News PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 902
Release 2003
Genre Genetic engineering
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World List of Serials in Agricultural Biotechnology

World List of Serials in Agricultural Biotechnology
Title World List of Serials in Agricultural Biotechnology PDF eBook
Author Robert D. Warmbrodt
Publisher
Pages 488
Release 1993
Genre Agricultural biotechnology
ISBN

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GEN Guide to Biotechnology Companies

GEN Guide to Biotechnology Companies
Title GEN Guide to Biotechnology Companies PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 654
Release 1998
Genre Biotechnology
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Preparing for Future Products of Biotechnology

Preparing for Future Products of Biotechnology
Title Preparing for Future Products of Biotechnology PDF eBook
Author National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher National Academies Press
Pages 231
Release 2017-07-28
Genre Science
ISBN 0309452058

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Between 1973 and 2016, the ways to manipulate DNA to endow new characteristics in an organism (that is, biotechnology) have advanced, enabling the development of products that were not previously possible. What will the likely future products of biotechnology be over the next 5â€"10 years? What scientific capabilities, tools, and/or expertise may be needed by the regulatory agencies to ensure they make efficient and sound evaluations of the likely future products of biotechnology? Preparing for Future Products of Biotechnology analyzes the future landscape of biotechnology products and seeks to inform forthcoming policy making. This report identifies potential new risks and frameworks for risk assessment and areas in which the risks or lack of risks relating to the products of biotechnology are well understood.

Genetic Engineering News Guide to Biotechnology Companies

Genetic Engineering News Guide to Biotechnology Companies
Title Genetic Engineering News Guide to Biotechnology Companies PDF eBook
Author Genetic Engineering News Staff
Publisher Mary Ann Liebert
Pages 260
Release 1994-02-01
Genre Biotechnology industries
ISBN 9780913113646

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Biotechnology

Biotechnology
Title Biotechnology PDF eBook
Author Martin Kenney
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 328
Release 1986-01-01
Genre Science
ISBN 0300033923

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