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15928. How insulin is made using bacteria

Synthetic human insulin was the first golden molecule of the biotech industry and the direct result of recombinant DNA technology. Currently, millions of diabetics worldwide use synthetic insulin to regulate their blood sugar levels. Synthetic insulin i

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15929. How insulin is made using yeast

Synthetic human insulin was the first golden molecule of the biotech industry and the direct result of recombinant DNA technology. Currently, millions of diabetics worldwide use synthetic insulin to regulate their blood sugar levels.

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16721. Biography 34: Herb W. Boyer (1936 - )

Herb Boyer and Stan Cohen "invented" recombinant DNA technology.

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15651. Walter Gilbert (1986)

image of Walter Gilbert. Already a well-known and respected scientist, Gilbert co-founded a biotech company, Biogen, in the late 1970s. Today, Biogen is one of the largest biotech companies in the world.

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15646. Herbert Boyer

Image of Herbert Boyer. From lineman on the varsity football team to co-founder of the first biotech company, Boyer has never lacked imagination, drive, or vision. His and Stanley Cohen's recombinant DNA work paved the way for the biotech revolution.

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16812. Animation 39: A genome is an entire set of genes.

James Watson describes sequencing the human genome using markers and BACs, and Craig Venter explains using cDNA libraries, ESTs, and shotgun sequencing.

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15643. Genentech

Genentech, the first biotechnology company, established in 1976.

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15626. Paul Berg and Stanley Cohen

Herbert Boyer: Former varsity lineman turned biotech bigwig. Expert at cutting DNA before most people knew it could be done. Stanley Cohen: A born tinkerer; figured out the trick of using loops of DNA called plasmids to transform bacterial DNA

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