Gene editing can cure illnesses, ensure global food security, conserve species and more. But its risks of misuse are ...

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 ...

The first steps in genetic engineering were taken in 1973 by US biochemists Herbert Boyer and Stanley Cohen, who inserted DNA from one bacterium into another. We are trying to obtain food in a way ...

In 1972, University of California, San Francisco, biochemist Herbert Boyer met Stanford University geneticist Stanley Norman Cohen at a meeting in Hawaii. The two then kicked off a collaboration that ...

I didn't want to do a fourth year of post-doc, and [Herbert Boyer, cofounder of Genentech] had just hired five new hotshots. I knew some of these folks. I thought I could spend a year and a half ...