Gold Dust, ACCELL Gene Gun Accessory
name: label: inventor of prototype to accell gene gun
content: McCabe, Dennis
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Agracetus’s ACCELL gene gun, delivers foreign genes into plant cells in order to create transgenic plants. In the gun’s design, small gold particles, like this gold dust, are coated with DNA to be delivered into the target cells. For more information see the Agracetus gene gun prototype (object 1993.054.01).
label: Description (Brief)
content: Source:
label: Description (Brief)
content: Accession File
label: Description (Brief)
content: US Patent 5,120,657. “Apparatus for genetic transformation.” Published 9 June 1992.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
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content: Biotechnology and Genetics
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content: Science & Mathematics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2001.0193.02
label: catalog number
content: 2001.0193.02
label: accession number
content: 2001.0193
objectType: label: Object Name
content: gold dust
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: gold (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 cm x 2 cm x 1.3 cm; 1 9/16 in x 25/32 in x 1/2 in