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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

HELLING, Robert Bruce (1936 – 2006)

1936 – 2006

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1973 CE

#257.5

Construction of biologically functional bacterial plasmids in vitro.

COHEN, Stanley Norman (1935 – )
COHEN, Stanley Norman (1935 – ) CHANG, Annie C.Y. (1936 – ) HELLING, Robert Bruce (1936 – 2006)
BOYER, Herbert Wayne (1936 – )
BOYER, Herbert Wayne (1936 – )

Cohen, Boyer and associates developed the first practical method for cloning genes, by the formation of recombinant plasmids which can be used to infect plasmid-free bacteria. The authors demonstrated that if DNA is f…