Sunday, July 15, 2007

Genetically modified foods - techniques

Some of the techniques used to transfer foreign cells into animals and plants include:

1) Bacterial carriers
2) Biolistics
3) Calcium phosphate precipitation
4) Electroporation
5) Gene silencing
6) Gene splicing
7) Lipofection
8) Microinjection
9) Viral carriers


Source: http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Genetically_modified_foods_techniques?OpenDocument

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