Genentech Inc. | American corporation | Britannica (original) (raw)
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association with South San Francisco
In South San Francisco …the biotechnology industry, which includes Genentech (founded 1976). South San Francisco boasts an attractive residential section with a view of San Francisco Bay. The most visible city attraction is a large sign, constructed in 1923, that reads “South San Francisco The Industrial City,” located on Sign Hill. San Francisco International… Read More
development of biotechnology
In biotechnology: History of biotechnology …to late 1970s, led by Genentech, a pharmaceutical company established in 1976 by Robert A. Swanson and Herbert W. Boyer to commercialize the recombinant DNA technology pioneered by Boyer, Paul Berg, and Stanley N. Cohen. Early companies such as Genentech, Amgen, Biogen, Cetus, and Genex began by manufacturing genetically engineered… Read More
In pharmaceutical industry: Synthetic human proteins …1976 a new pharmaceutical firm, Genentech Inc., was formed. The goal of Genentech’s founders was to use recombinant DNA technology in bacterial cells to produce human proteins such as insulin and growth hormone. Since the amino acid sequence and chemical structure of human insulin were known, the sequence of DNA… Read More
