The alternative presented by the gene gun is therefore particularly valuable.

Gene guns are so far mostly applied for plant cells.

Different disk strengths can be available for some gene gun models.

Some models of gene gun also use a rupture disk, but not as a safety device.

With the introduction of the gene gun in 1987 it became possible to integrate foreign genes into a chloroplast.

Other methods include a "gene gun" or "biolistic particle delivery system".

Gene guns have also been used to deliver DNA vaccines.

There is even a "gene gun" that shoots DNA into leaves.

Additionally, with only one firing of a gene gun, a skilled technician can generate two transformed organisms.

The gene gun was invented in 1987, allowing transformation of plants not susceptible to Agrobacterium infection.

The gene gun has become a common tool for labeling subsets of cells in cultured tissue.

In addition, there are no reports of a chloroplast silencing a transgene inserted with a gene gun.

Dr. Brand's gene gun is nothing like the six-shooters that boys have been known to lug around in second grade.

A small plastic and metal box that fits easily on the counter, his gene gun is powered by high-pressure helium.

The gene gun was originally a Crosman air pistol modified to fire dense tungsten particles.

Currently DNA vaccine is administered via an injection or by a gene gun.

Gene gun bombardment has also been used to transform Caenorhabditis elegans, as an alternative to microinjection.

Agrobacterium does not infect all plant species, but there are several other effective techniques for plant transformation including the gene gun.

Discharge of the gene gun results in penetration of the dermis between 0.1 to 5mm, depending on the projectile force.

Gene gun: Also referred to as particle bombardment, microprojectile bombardment, or biolistics.

The "Gene Gun" method is also referred to as "biolistics" (ballistics using biological components).

The use of particle bombardment, or the gene gun, is another physical method of DNA transfection.

He jokes with a graduate student, proudly shows off a gene gun that shoots DNA into cells, sits in the coffee room trading stories.

Genes can be inserted into callus cells using biolistic bombardment, also known as a gene gun, or Agrobacterium tumefaciens.

The target of a gene gun is often a callus of undifferentiated plant cells growing on gel medium in a Petri dish.

Other methods include a "gene gun" or "biolistic particle delivery system".

At Cornell Sanford and colleagues developed the "Biolistic Particle Delivery System" or so-called "gene gun".

Particle bombardment was made possible with the invention of the Biolistic Particle Delivery System (gene gun) by John Sanford in 1990.

A gene gun or a biolistic particle delivery system, originally designed for plant transformation, is a device for injecting cells with genetic information; the inserted genetic material are termed transgenes.