“A gene gun or a biolistic particle delivery system, originally designed for plant transformation, is a device for injecting cells with genetic information. The payload is an elemental particle of a heavy metal coated with plasmid DNA. This technique is often simply referred to as bioballistics or biolistics.”
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Read that sentence again, and tell me we aren’t living in the future.
Gene gun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1:25 pm • 6 September 2010
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#genetics #science #bioballistics 
