自1980年以来,商业界发生的事件中,最为突出的莫过于出现了一些专门制造和销售遗传工程产品和研究成果的小型企业公司。这些公司所利用的都是大学研究人员开发的技术与成果,包括从一个有机体中分离出一些独立的基因,以具有充分活性的序列插入一个完全不同的有机体中。例如,他们曾经使普通的肠道细菌—— Since 1980, the most prominent event in the business world has been the emergence of small-scale companies specializing in the manufacture and sale of genetic engineering products and research results. These companies use technology and results developed by university researchers, including the separation of isolated genes from an organism and insertion of fully active sequences into a completely different organism. For example, they used to make ordinary intestinal bacteria -