Genentech, Inc. Genentech was spawned in 1972, when Stanford medical professor Stanley Cohen and biochemist Herbert Boyer of the University of California, San Francisco, attended a conference in Honolulu that dealt with recombinant DNA technology, which was Stanford biochemist Paul Berg’s discovery of how to splice pieces of DNA from different organisms to create hybrids. At the conference, Boyer gave a talk about his own discovery of an enzyme that could create these hybrids very efficiently. Cohen then spoke about how to clone thousands of identical copies of a piece of DNA by introducing it
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