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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
22 Jan 2024 Acquired Novo Nordisk (Ozempic)
“In 1980, Genentech and Eli Lilly as their partner, changed everything with recombinant DNA and genetic engineering of drugs. I suspect many people don't know this.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 22 Jan 2024
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Novo Nordisk (Ozempic)
Transcript context
…Wow. In 1980, Genentech and Eli Lilly as their partner, changed everything with recombinant DNA and genetic engineering of drugs. I suspect many people don't know this. I vaguely knew this before researching the episode. The first drug that they genetically engineered and that started this whole revolution was Insulin. Absolutely. It was the founding first application of the idea that Genentech had of commercializing recombinant DNA. The first implementation was Insulin. To just paint a little bit of a picture of why this is so amazing, it's not just that we now had a way to not rely on animal pancreases. It's that for the first time, we actually had human Insulin. It is Insulin that is chemically identical to the Insulin that naturally is produced by your body rather than injecting something slightly different from a pig or cow.…
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