Inventor

Keiichi Itakura

Patents indexed

Year range

1982

Associated with

Years active

1982

Total patents

Most recent

1982

Domains

biotechpharmaceutical

Activity by decade

1980s

Patents

Career timeline

1 patents, in 1982

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How Scientists Taught Bacteria to Make Human Hormones

Genentech's 1979 patent on using engineered DNA to force bacteria to produce human proteins like insulin and growth hormones.

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