Nature (Science)
2026-06-23 00:00
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HASH:0045fd381261dddc47ba525f010f091d
A 1970s patent that changed the course of commercial biotechnology
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Abstract
The scientific community awaits a patent for recombinant DNA technology, and experimentation with an anaesthetic from puffballs, in our weekly dip into Nature’s archive. Snippets from Nature’s past.