Microferm Fermentor
notes: label: Description
content: Herbert Boyer (b. 1936) is an American biotechnologist who, working with Stanley N. Cohen and Paul Berg, found a way to coax bacteria into producing foreign proteins, thus jump-starting the field of genetic engineering. Scientists at Genentech, Inc., a firm he established in 1976, used this fermenter to make the first batch of human insulin in bacteria using recombinant DNA techniques. The fermenter was manufactured by the New Brunswick Scientific Co. in Edison, N.J.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0167.01
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0167.01
label: accession number
content: 1993.0167
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bacterial Fermentor
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 89.5 cm x 71.1 cm x 58.4 cm; 35 1/4 in x 28 in x 23 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 54 in x 32 in x 77 in; 137.16 cm x 81.28 cm x 195.58 cm