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Topics
Genetic engineering, eugenics,
and molecular genetics
The Rockefeller Foundation
Prehistory: basic science
and social control
Depression-era reorientation:
vital processes
Sustaining biophysics
The effects of World War II
Appreciation of basic science
National health care or medical
research
Biophysics in the early postwar
years
Bacterial viruses
Structural biophysics, x-ray crystallography
of proteins
DNA and the genetic code
The origins of genetic engineering
Bacterial genetics
Recombinant DNA techniques
Safety concerns
The market
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Names and terms
Hermann J. Muller
John D. Rockefeller
Rockefeller Foundation (founded
1913)
Warren Weaver
Jacques Loeb, general physiology
ultracentrifuge, electrophoresis
apparatus, electron microscope, x-ray diffraction
National Science Foundation (founded
1950)
National Institutes of Health (founded
1930)
Office of Naval Research, Atomic
Energy Commission
bacterial virus / (bacterio)phage
Max Delbrück (1906-1981)
James Watson (b. 1928) and Francis
Crick (b. 1916)
DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA
(ribonucleic acid)
plasmid
gene regulation
host-range restriction
restriction enzyme
DNA polymerase, ligase
Asilomar (1975)
Genentech (founded 1976)
initial public offering
Chakrabarty decision, Bayh-Dole
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