The history of biotechnology
With a willingness to work with scientists, Cambridge was an early player in biotechnology
Scientists began cutting and pasting bits of DNA together in the 1970s, in research that rapidly gave rise to a new era in biology in which genes could be spliced into the DNA of bacteria and other organisms. (Full article: 575 words)
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