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Genentech was founded in 1976 by Herbert Boyer, a biochemistry professor at the University of California at San Francisco and a pioneer in recombinant DNA, and Robert Swanson, a financier who finds backers for new companies. Almost immediately, the firm began announcing a series of breakthroughs. The first, in 1977, was the production of a brain hormone called somatostatin, which may be used to treat certain hormonal disorders. In 1979 the company developed thymosin alpha1, which is now being tested by the National Cancer Institute for possible treatment of certain types of brain and lung cancer. Genentech's gross...
...most important patent application now pending is for the key gene-splicing processes developed by Microbiologists Stanley Cohen of Stanford and Herbert Boyer of the University of California: both have signed over royalty rights to their respective universities, but Boyer is a major stockholder in Genentech Corp., a Bay Area genetic engineering firm, and obviously stands to make money from the process. No one quarrels with that. But there is a mixed view of just how much good will accrue from the introduction of patents to the infant industry...
...point where the chief justice refused to speak to either him or his clerks. More important, the testimony indicated that the court's procedures were slow, cumbersome, even archaic. That view was echoed by Robert Thompson, a former California appeals court justice, who told TIME Correspondent Edward J. Boyer that the court was taking on too many cases for review...
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...Clete. Boyer trade Yankees to Braves...all three involved...