TWiV 197: Cloning HeLa cells with Professor Philip I Marcus
This Week in Virology · Vincent Racaniello
August 26, 20121h 10m
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Show Notes
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Philip I. Marcus
Vincent travels to the University of Connecticut to meet up with Professor Philip I. Marcus to discuss his development of the single cell cloning technique in the early 1950s.
Links for this episode:- Cloning with X-irradiated feeder cells (PNAS)
- Philip I. Marcus in the lab (jpg)
- Cloning with capillary tubes (jpg)
- Cloning platform (jpg)
- VRR holding 1950s glass plate of clones (jpg)
- HeLa clones (jpg)
- Cloning cylinder (jpg)
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