Paul Berg of Stanford University spliced the DNA of viruses into the first recombinant molecules
In 1971, Paul Berg of Stanford University spliced the DNA of viruses into the first recombinant molecules. Bergﾒs landmark gene-splicing experiment involved splicing a bit of the DNA of the bacterial virus known as lambda into the DNA of simian virus SV40, whose natural host is the monkey.
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Source: Science History Institute
Credit: Photo: Paul Berg, courtesy the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
