The two months in 1980 that shaped the future of biotech

Photo caption: The announcement that Stanford’s Paul Berg won the 1980 Nobel Prize for Chemistry started an amazing two-month period that shaped the future of biotech. Hulton Archive / Getty Images. Article by Henry T. Greely.

In the course of just under two months that started 40 years ago this week, five events occurred that shaped the biotechnology industry and bioscience research. Looking back on these seminal events is a reminder of the odd ways in which change happens. […]

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