The First Patented G.M.O.
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JUNE 30, 2024
Rhea Purohit tells the story of the first ever biotechnology patent for Issue 03. Thanks for reading! Modern biotechnology began in 1972 when biochemists at Stanford University spliced together DNA from two different organisms. Stanley Cohen and Herb Boyer—professors at Stanford and UC San Francisco, respectively— met the following year in a Hawaiian delicatessen to discuss how the new method, called recombinant DNA technology, could be employed to engineer living cells to make usefu
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