The Invention of Recombinant DNA Technology

Berg, Boyer, Cohen

The Race to Clone Factor VIII

Genetics Institute vs. Genentech

Team Actelion

In the 1980s, hundreds of biotechnology firms were established with the express intent of becoming fully integrated pharmaceutical…

Mr. Pseudomonas

“A live, human-made microorganism is patentable.”

Alejandro Zaffaroni’s remarkable career in science and business spanned six decades. He was an early contributor to the technical and commercial success of Syntex, which became, in…

Mathilde Krim

A Life of Causes

In 1944, near the end of World War II, an eighteen-year-old University of Geneva…

Oral History Spotlight

Dennis Gillings: Calculated Risk and Reward

Dennis Gillings has always been a risk taker. In 1982, he gave up a secure career as a professor at a top university to build Quintiles, the biostatistical consulting company he had…

Double Helix: The Supporting Cast

The other players in the discovery of the molecular configuration of…

Probiotic Philosophy

A Brief History

Biotech Battles
Ebola

As the 2014 Ebola outbreak claimed lives in West Africa and threatened to spread beyond its region of origin, many…