cover image Invisible Frontiers: The Race to Synthesize a Human Gene

Invisible Frontiers: The Race to Synthesize a Human Gene

Stephen S. Hall. Microsoft Press, $8.94 (334pp) ISBN 978-1-55615-172-9

The goal of this ``race'' between a Harvard biogenetics lab and two San Francisco-area labs was to make insulin in mass-market quantities by using recombinant DNA techniques. ``This is demanding reading for biochemistry novices,'' warned PW , ``but the drama is double-track: scientists plus entrepreneurs.'' (October)