Recombinant University
Subtitle: Genetic Engineering and the Emergence of Stanford Biotechnology
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780226143835
Subjects: Stanford university; Recombinant dna; Genetic engineering; Biotechnology
Description: This title examines the history of biotechnology when it was new, especially when synonymous with recombinant DNA technology. It focuses on the academic community in the San Francisco Bay Area where recombinant DNA technology was developed and adopted as the first major commercial technology for genetic engineering at Stanford in the 1970s. The book argues that biotechnology was initially a hybrid creation of academic and commercial institutions held together by the assumption of a positive relationship between private ownership and the public interest.