Concept 34 Genes can be moved between species.

Links

From Corned Beef to Cloning

A personal perspective from Dr. Stanley Cohen and Dr. Herbert Boyer about their recombinant DNA experiments. This is part of the Access Excellence web site.

Biotechnology at 25: The Founders

A 1998 biotech exhibit from the University of California, Berkley library. The site has photos documenting Cohen and Boyer's experiments.

Bibliography

• Cohen, S.N., Chang, A.C.Y., Boyer, H.W., and Helling, R.B., 1973, Construction of Biologically Functional Bacterial Plasmids In Vitro, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 70: 3240-3244.
• Micklos, David A., and Freyer, Greg A., 1990, DNA Science: A First Course in Recombinant DNA Technology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, New York.
• Watson, James D., Gilman, Michael, Witkowski, Jan, Zoller, Mark, 1982, Recombinant DNA, 2nd edition, , W. H. Freeman and Company, New York.
• Watson, James D., 1987, Molecular Biology of the Gene, The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Inc., Menlo Park, California.