recombinant DNA
noun
: genetically engineered DNA usually incorporating DNA from more than one species of organism
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Not everyone was caught up on recombinant DNA technology.
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Eva Amsen, JSTOR Daily, 11 June 2025
Considered the first genetic engineering company, Genentech, one of the creators of recombinant DNA technology, has since gone on to become a household name for isolating the genes for human insulin, growth hormone and more.
—Theresa Neil, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
In a bold stand to draw attention to looming questions of ethics, one of Dr. Singer’s friends and collaborators, Paul Berg, had paused his research after being the first to create recombinant DNA molecules in 1972.
—Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
In the 1990s, researchers at the National University of Singapore invented and patented the first process for creating a synthetic endotoxin-detecting compound using horseshoe crab DNA and recombinant DNA technology.
—Kristoffer Whitney and Jolie Crunelle, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Oct. 2023
In the 1990s, researchers at the National University of Singapore invented and patented the first process for creating a synthetic, endotoxin-detecting compound using horseshoe crab DNA and recombinant DNA technology.
—Kristoffer Whitney, Fortune Well, 13 Oct. 2023
The recombinant DNA researchers behind the Asilomar Conference of 1975 famously organized a moratorium on certain experiments.
—Sigal Samuel, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Newspaper coverage highlighted the activities of Jeremy Rifkin, who has been a persistent critic of biotechnology since the recombinant DNA controversy in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1976.
—Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 22 May 2014
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Eva Amsen, JSTOR Daily, 11 June 2025
Considered the first genetic engineering company, Genentech, one of the creators of recombinant DNA technology, has since gone on to become a household name for isolating the genes for human insulin, growth hormone and more.
—Theresa Neil, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
In a bold stand to draw attention to looming questions of ethics, one of Dr. Singer’s friends and collaborators, Paul Berg, had paused his research after being the first to create recombinant DNA molecules in 1972.
—Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
In the 1990s, researchers at the National University of Singapore invented and patented the first process for creating a synthetic endotoxin-detecting compound using horseshoe crab DNA and recombinant DNA technology.
—Kristoffer Whitney and Jolie Crunelle, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Oct. 2023
In the 1990s, researchers at the National University of Singapore invented and patented the first process for creating a synthetic, endotoxin-detecting compound using horseshoe crab DNA and recombinant DNA technology.
—Kristoffer Whitney, Fortune Well, 13 Oct. 2023
The recombinant DNA researchers behind the Asilomar Conference of 1975 famously organized a moratorium on certain experiments.
—Sigal Samuel, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Newspaper coverage highlighted the activities of Jeremy Rifkin, who has been a persistent critic of biotechnology since the recombinant DNA controversy in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1976.
—Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 22 May 2014
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