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History and Trends in Bioprocessing and Biotransformation

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The history of modern genetics in Germany during the 20th century is a story of missed chances. In the USA the genetic revolution opened a fascinating new field for ambitious scientists and created a rapidly growing new industry. Meanwhile Germany stood aside, combating with political and social restrictions. Promising young scientists who wanted to work in the field left Germany for the US, and big companies moved their facilities out of the country. Up until the middle of the 1990s molecular biology in Germany remained a “sleeping beauty” even though many brilliant scientists did their jobs very well. Then a somewhat funny idea changed everything: the German minister for education and science proclaimed the BioRegio contest in order to award the most powerful biotechnology region in Germany concerning academia and especially industry. Since then Germany’s biotechnology industry has grown constantly and rapidly due to the foundation of a number of small biotech companies; big companies have returned their interests and their investments to Germany, paralleled by an improvement in academic research because of more funding and better support especially for younger scientists. In respect to biotechnology and molecular biology, Germany is still a developing country, but it has started to move and to take its chances in an exciting global competition.

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Hammar, F. (2002). History of Modern Genetics in Germany. In: Dutta, N.N., et al. History and Trends in Bioprocessing and Biotransformation. Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology, vol 75. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44604-4_1

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