The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 93, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 25, 1979 Page: 6 of 28
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In Altering Creating Genes
[into recombinant DNA're-1
search, says William F. Amon,
director of new business devel-
opment.
"We still do not have re-
combinant bugs in industrial
taling more than $30 million,
own almost two-thirds of Cetus.
Long-established pharmaceu-
tical giants also are investing
Tticated facility is being built,
spokesman Joe Heywood says.
He said about a half-dozen
major pharmaceutical firms
are involved in similar re-
search, as are some agricul-
tural operations that want to
improve plants or increase
agreed to produce and market
Genentech’s human insulin,
which most see as a potentially
superior product that will be
commercially available in a
few years.
Upjohn & Co. has a recombi-
nant DNA lab at its corporate
in the technology.
Eli Lilly & Co. supplies about
80 percent of the insulin - now
derived from animals — that’s
used daily by 1W millon Ameri-
can diabetics. The firm has
creating genes in living o
DNA is the substance
carries an organism’s her
f Francisco, joined Swamonjn use, but that’s just a question
of time,” Amon says. "We cer-
tainly have recombinant organ-
1 founding Genentech. And with
' officers and stockholders who _...v .............UUCIS ^ lirc uu„ luna>
i- include some of the brightest isms in our laboratory. We’re with separate investments to-
I wnfifir tohtx In Ihp f old r
headquarters in Kalamazoo,
Mich., and a more sophis- yields.
i scientific lights in the field,
' Genentech was a driving force
• behind two widely hailed break-
throughs in recombinant DNA
> research.
> First came the construction
'■ of artificial genes that were in-
i serted into bacteria and switch-
i ed on, changing the bacteria
^______- ....... into microscopic factories that
new gene orders the bacteria to produce somutostatin.
Less than a year later, in
September, the feat was repeat-
ed with a more complex and
valuable hormone - human in-
sulin.
FINANCIAL TIES
The work, much of it per-
formed at the nonprofit City of
Hope National Medical Center
near Los Angela and at UC-
San Francisco, was funded by
Genentech and directed by sci-
JULIE KATHERINE
JULIE KATHERINE Hurst,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Lany Hurst of Baytown,
celebrates her third birthday
Thursday. Grandparents are
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Scantlen
of Baytown. Great grand-
parents are Mr. and Mrs. D.C.
Coffman of Electra.
ENERGY]
SAVER
The extremely rare sub1
stance, which sells for about
$840,000 an ounce for research,
aii uumx iut researcii,
is being investigated as a treat*
ment for a number of diseases,
including diabetes. It will be
the first commercial product
ever produced by restructuring
(heredity.
Velluci once tried unsuccessful-
ly to ban such research at Har-
j- •*& w
tory, such as a Frankenstein. an(j press yts, Swanson, who’s
But ^companies large and occasionally accused of grand-
small are turning to genetic en- standing concedes that a burst
gineering. They talk of hew 0f investor interest followed the
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rope toexploitthe technology.
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 93, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 25, 1979, newspaper, January 25, 1979; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1074323/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.