Insulin - The Crooked Timber. A History from Thick Brown Muck to Wall Street Gold, Hardback/***

One hundred years after a milestone medical discovery, ' Insulin - The Crooked Timber ' tells the story of how insulin was transformed from what one clinician called 'thick brown muck' into the very first drug to be produced using genetic engineering, one which would earn the founders of the US biotech company Genentech a small fortune. Publisher: Oxford University Press Author(s): Kersten T. (School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science, University of Leeds) Hall Illustration(s): 71 line diagrams and halftones Number of pages: 480 Publication date: 2022 Dimensions: 165 x 240 x 34 Cover type: Hardback