Recombinant DNA technology allows scientists to manipulate DNA material outside of a living organism to create tailored genetic combinations.

Following preliminary experiments in 1973, the Cohen-Boyer team was able to cut open a plasmid loop, insert a gene from different bacteria and close the plasmid. This created a recombinant DNA ...

A Sticky Situation: Recombinant DNA Technology Janet Mertz’s work with simian virus 40 DNA during her graduate years was pivotal for developing DNA recombination as we now know it.

Recombinant DNA research helped lay the groundwork for modern medicine. But, before Harvard could build a laboratory to do it, University scientists had to overcome the staunch fears that the ...

He eventually improved DNA uptake efficiency by ten-thousand-fold or more. Hanahan’s method for improving DNA uptake played a large part in making recombinant DNA technology accessible. “Competent E.

Gene editing was a new idea in the mid-1970s. So when two of America's most prestigious research institutions planned a new facility for work in recombinant DNA, the technology that lets ...

Recombinant DNA was in its infancy then, its risks and rewards still largely hypothetical; and so, in July 1976, the Cambridge City Council issued a moratorium on certain recombinant DNA experiments.

Genetic engineering is the process of using technology to change the genetic makeup of an organism - be it an animal, plant or a bacterium. This can be achieved by using recombinant DNA (rDNA), or ...

As part of the "Genes In Space-6" experiment, astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) created breaks in the DNA of a common yeast, and then analyzed how it repaired itself.