The Oswald T. Avery Collection
- Title:
- Test of 'Fixation' Time of T[ransforming]. P[rinciple]. by Sensitized Cells
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- Description:
- Caption by Maclyn McCarty reads: "One of the experiments carried out by Harriet Taylor (and written in her hand) showing that pneumococci that reach the competent state in the absence of transforming DNA will take up added DNA in as short a period as 5 minutes. She later found that the competent state would persist for some days at refrigerator temperature (2 to 4 degrees C)."
- Item is handwritten.
- Number of Image Pages:
- 1 (126,446 Bytes)
- Date:
- 1946-08-13 (August 13, 1946)
- Creator:
- [Ephrussi-Taylor, Harriett]
- Contributor:
- Avery, Oswald T.
- McCarty, Maclyn
- Rights:
- Courtesy of Maclyn McCarty.
- Subject:
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- Medical Subject Headings (MeSH):
- Transformation, Genetic
- Exhibit Category:
- After the Discovery: The Transforming Principle's Reception by the Scientific Community
- Relation:
Biochemical Studies of Environmental Factors Essential in Transformation of Pneumococcal Types (1946)
- Box Number: 1
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- Folder Number: 4
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- Unique Identifier:
- CCAADA
- Document Type:
- Laboratory notes
- Language:
- English
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- image/tif
- Physical Condition:
- Good
- Series: Research and Discovery of the Transforming Principle, 1912-1999
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- SubSeries: Preliminary Research
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- Folder: Laboratory Notes, 1940-1946
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- Metadata Last Modified Date:
- 2006-12-12
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