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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

SILVERSTEIN, Saul J.

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1979

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Transformation of mammalian cells with genes from procaryotes and eucaryotes.

AXEL, Richard (1946 – )
AXEL, Richard (1946 – ) SILVERSTEIN, Saul J. WIGLER, Michael Howard (1947 – ) & et al.

Axel, along with microbiologist Saul J. Silverstein and geneticist Michael H. Wigler, discovered a technique of cotransformation via transfection. This process, which allows foreign DNA to be inserted into a host cell…