The first biotech company--Genentech Inc.--was casually conceived in 1976 by Herbert Boyer, a University of California, San Francisco, biologist, and Robert Swanson, a member of a West Coast venture ...

When Herbert Boyer of the University of California and Stanley Cohen of Stanford University found a way to recombine DNA molecules in test tubes using restriction enzymes, 1 they crossed the ultimate ...

This led him, together with Herbert Boyer, to pioneer the use of plasmids for the development of recombinant DNA technology. Cohen was awarded the Lasker Award in 1980, the Wolf Prize (together ...