A device used for the high-velocity injection of DNA-coated particles directly into tissues, cells, or organelles.
a device used to bombard plant cells with metal particles coated with foreign genes to accomplish genetic engineering
Ballistic particle-mediated gene transfer. Complementary DNA molecules are adsorbed to gold particles and shot by a pressure gas jet into tissues or culture cells.
a device that inserts foreign DNA into a cell by propelling DNA-coated particles into the cell with a blast of gas
A device invented at Cornell University that allows genetic material to be introduced into a new organism. The genetic material from the donor is "shot" into cells of the recipient and the material is incorporated into its DNA.
Transformation technique that uses accelerated particles coated with DNA to introduce foreign DNA into recipient plant.
a method of introducing genes into cells by firing at high velocity gold particles to which DNA is adsorbed into the cells
A laboratory tool used to propel (or shoot) a gene (or other piece of DNA) into a cell at high energy. The aim is that the target cell will incorporate the new DNA and start using it.
a device for propelling DNA molecules into living cells.
The gene gun is a device for injecting cells with genetic information, originally designed for plant transformation. The payload is an elemental particle of a heavy metal coated with plasmid DNA. This technique is often simply referred to as biolistics.
