Invisible Frontiers: The Race to Synthesize a Human Gene by James D. Watson, Stephen S. Hall

Invisible Frontiers: The Race to Synthesize a Human Gene

James D. Watson, Stephen S. Hall

352 pages first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction science informative fast-paced

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From the spring of 1976 to the fall of 1978, three laboratories competed in a feverish race to clone a human gene for the first time, a feat that ultimately produced the world's first genetically engineered drug--the life-sustaining hormone insuli...

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