Blasting Sheets, ACCELL Gene Gun Accessory
name: label: inventor of prototype to accell gene gun
content: McCabe, Dennis
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Mylar blasting sheets function as an energy transfer device for the Agracetus ACCELL gene gun, a device for creating transgenic plant cells. In the gun’s design, water droplets are transformed by a high-voltage shock into a shock wave. The wave hits these blasting sheets, on which gold particles covered in DNA are resting. The sheet, along with the particles, is accelerated forward from the shock wave. Eventually the sheet hits a screen that stops the sheet, but allows the particles to continue forward to hit 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: U.S. 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: 2001.0193.03
label: catalog number
content: 2001.0193.03
label: accession number
content: 2001.0193
objectType: label: Object Name
content: blasting sheets
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: mylar (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.5 cm x 5.6 cm; 19/32 in x 2 7/32 in