DNA cloning: A personal view after 40 years

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 39, 2013, Pages 15521-15529

  Cohen, Stanley N ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CALCIUM ION; CIRCULAR DNA; DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; DNA HYBRID; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; NAKED DNA; PLASMID DNA; POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE SYNTHASE; RECOMBINANT DNA; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; SYNTHETIC DNA; VIRUS DNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; BIOSAFETY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSFER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; REVIEW; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

ECORI; GENE CLONING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PSC101; RESTRICTION ENZYME;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONGRESSES AS TOPIC; DNA; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; PATENTS AS TOPIC; PLASMIDS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84884630386     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1313397110     Document Type: Review

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