Janet Mertz, University of Wisconsin-Madison By the spring of 1971, Mertz had the DNA pieces she needed. But Berg’s lab still lacked a method for making this trivalent recombinant DNA. Once introduced ...

Recombinant DNA technologies developed ... in the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL). To overcome them, he pioneered a new transformation method that now bears his name. 1 In 1979, ...

In 1982 Food and Drug Administration approved Humulin, Eli Lily’s recombinant insulin made from Genentech’s specially modified bacteria. It was the first drug produced through recombinant DNA ...

In addition, genetically modified plants may someday be used to produce recombinant ... DNA transfer (vector sequences) and replacing selectable marker genes commonly used in the lab (antibiotic ...