Chinese hamster cells meet DNA repair: an entirely acceptable affair.

doi:10.1002/(SICI)1521-1878(199807)20:7<589::AID-BIES11>3.0.CO;2-W

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Chinese hamster cells meet DNA repair: an entirely acceptable affair.

BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology - 1 Jul 1998

Thompson L H

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This personal account relates the advent of mutant isolation and other developments in somatic cell genetics that were critical steps toward isolating DNA repair mutants in mammalian cells. The isolation of auxotrophic and temperature-sensitive mutants in genetically stable Chinese hamster cell d...

Topics

Animals
CHO Cells
Cricetinae
DNA Repair
Genetic Complementation Test
History, 20th Century
Humans
Mutation
Research
United States

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