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Paths to Innovation : Discovering Recombinant DNA, Oncogenes, and Prions, in One Medical School, Over One Decade / Henry R. Bourne.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bourne, Henry R.
- Series:
- Perspectives in medical humanities.
- Perspectives in medical humanities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prusiner, Stanley B., 1942-.
- Varmus, Harold.
- Bishop, J. Michael, 1936-.
- Boyer, Herbert W.
- Prusiner, Stanley B.
- Bishop, J. Michael.
- University of California, San Francisco.
- University of California, San Francisco. Department of Medicine.
- Genetics--Research.
- Biomedical Research--history.
- History, 20th Century.
- Schools, Medical--history.
- Genetics--Research--California--History.
- Genetics.
- California.
- San Francisco.
- Medical Subjects:
- University of California, San Francisco. Department of Medicine.
- University of California, San Francisco.
- Biomedical Research--history.
- History, 20th Century.
- Schools, Medical--history.
- San Francisco.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (322 pages): illustrations, portraits.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : University of California Medical Humanities Consortium, 2011.
- Summary:
- "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"--Page 4 of cover.
- Contents:
- Nowhere to go but up! : UCSF consolidates 1958-1964
- Deciding a future : The wild man's victory
- New brooms : And a new template for research
- Bizarre little binary point : An unlikely revolutionist
- The DNA revolution is born : As a new department prospers
- A transforming harvest : the revolution's first fruits
- Lone wolf and literacy maven : Parellel tracks converge
- A rare partnership : Fishing out the first cancer gene
- Barbarian at the gate : Naming the citadel
- Marching into the citadel : In golden armor
- Something in the water : Can we bottle it?
- Hatching innovation : Incubate, don't squeeze.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-9834639-2-1
- OCLC:
- 1453284899
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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