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Insulin : the crooked timber : a history from thick brown muck to Wall Street gold
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Insulin : the crooked timber : a history from thick brown muck to Wall Street gold / Kersten T. Hall.
ISBN
9780191945571 (ebook) :
Publication
Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Copyright Notice Date
©2022
Physical Description
1 online resource (xx, 455 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Also issued in print: 2022.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on February 9, 2022).
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Summary
One hundred years after a milestone medical discovery, this work tells the story of how insulin was transformed from what one clinician called 'thick brown muck' into the very first drug to be produced using genetic engineering, one which would earn the founders of the US biotech company Genentech a small fortune.
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Oxford scholarship online.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 30, 2022
Series
Oxford scholarship online
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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