Paths to innovation : discovering recombinant DNA, oncogenes, and prions in one medical school, over one decade / Henry R. Bourne.

San Francisco : University of California Medical Humanities Consortium, 2011.

xiii, 305 p. ill., ports. ; 23 cm.

"In less than a decade, scientists at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) learned how to clone DNA, founded the company that created the field of biotechnology, identified the first cancer genes, and made the heretical discovery that a protein by itself can transmit an infectious disease. The discoveries of Herbert Boyer, Michael Bishop, Harold Varmus, and Stanley Prusiner show that real innovators require freedom and time to tackle hard problems in their own way."--P. [4] of cover.

Discovering recombinant DNA, oncogenes, and prions in one medical school, over one decade

English

May 15, 2012

Includes bibliographical references and index.

UC Medical Humanities Consortium.