A transgenic mouse — one with
foreign genes swapped into its DNA — poses with its own gene sequence at Harvard Medical School.
Not exact matches
Goldstein and colleagues had reported that tardigrades imported about 17 percent of their
genes from
foreign sources using a type of DNA
swapping known as horizontal
gene transfer (SN Online: 11/25/15).
Each of the awardees — Van Montagu, Robert Fraley of Monsanto, and Mary - Dell Chilton at the University of Washington — figured out how to use Agrobacterium to
swap foreign genes into plants.