Early cloning and recombinant DNA technology at Herbert W. Boyer's UCSF laboratory in the 1970s
By: Mary C. Betlach. Interview conducted by Sally Smith Hughes in 1994. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Hughes, Sally Smith.; Program in the History of the Biological Sciences and Biotechnology.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2002
Subjects: Boyer, Herbert W.; Cohen, Stanley N.; Jawetz, Ernest.; Riggs, Arthur D.; Rutter, W. J.; Helling, Robert.; Molecular cloning -- Research -- California.; Plasmids -- Genetics -- Research -- California.
Description: Discussion of laboratory facilities, personnel, competition, and working atmosphere at Herbert Boyer's laboratory in the early 1970s; early work to purify restriction enzymes and plasmids and clone DNA; biosafety concerns; plasmid vector development, approval and certification, and conflicts surrounding dissemination to colleagues; perspectives on division between science and industry; opinions on scientists who merit the Nobel Prize; comments on Herbert Boyer, Stanley N. Cohen, Robert Helling, Ernest Jawetz, Art Riggs, William J. Rutter, and others.