History of Industrial Biotechnology

Industrial Biotechnology: Sustainable Growth and Economic Success

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 17-77

  Demain, Arnold L ^a  

^a DREW UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biopharmaceutical revolution; Drug development; Enzyme inhibitors; Penicillin; Recombinant proteins; Systems microbiology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859293819     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527630233.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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