Gene jockeys : life science and the making of the first biotech drugs / Nicolas Rasmussen.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.

viii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Biology, industry, and the Cold War -- The insulin trophy -- Growing pains : commercial strains on a way of life -- The interferon derby : markets in credit, tournaments of value -- EPO : the making of the biotech blockbuster -- tPA the end of the beginning.

Includes bibliographical references and index.