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The golden helix by arthur kornberg is a 287 page hardcover book about the birth of the biotechnology industry with an emphasis on the early days of dnax research in palo alto dnax research was the biotech research arm of schering plough headquartered in kenilworth nj the book also mentions other players in the biotech and pharma industry . The golden helix inside biotech ventures by arthur kornberg 333 rating details 12 ratings 0 reviews the average person indeed even the relatively sophisticated reader is at once dazzled and mystified by the facts of biotechnology both as a business and as an intellectual enterprise now arthur kornberg drawing extensively on . Recombinant dna technology has already had two remarkable successes scientists have mapped the human genome are well on their way to identifying the 80 000 or so genes arrayed along it and are discovering the function of the genes already identified spawning the asociated multifaceted. The golden helix could have been torn from a companys brochure for high rollers at the biotech gambling table or as kornberg puts it the biotech crapshoot but it is a real book . The golden helix inside biotech ventures by arthur kornberg published by university science books 0 935702 32 6