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KING, Thomas Joseph (1921 – 2000)

1921 – 2000

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1953 CE

#13965

The transplantability of nuclei of arrested hybrid blastulae (R. pipiens female X R. catesbeiana male).

King and Briggs cloned a frog by nuclear transfer of embryonic cells. Their experiment was the first successful nuclear transplanation performed in metazoans. The same cloning technique, using somatic cells, was later…