Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Philip I. Marcus

Vincent travels to the University of Connecticut to meet up with Professor Philip I. Marcus to discuss his development of the single cell cloning technique in the early 1950s.

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Cloning with X-irradiated feeder cells (PNAS)
Philip I. Marcus in the lab (jpg)
Cloning with capillary tubes (jpg)
Cloning platform (jpg)
VRR holding 1950s glass plate of clones (jpg)
HeLa clones (jpg)
Cloning cylinder (jpg)
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