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Contributor(s): Sir Geoffrey Owen and Dr Tom Kirchmaier
Released on 11 April 2016
Geoffrey Owen discusses his new book (joint with Michael M. Hopkins) on how biotechnology emerged as a new way of making medicines in the 1970s, how firms based in the US took the lead in the new techniques, and why the UK and other industrial countries have found it so hard to catch up.
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