Beginner’s Luck

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Sep 2015 English Publisher:Elsevier BVJournal:Cell, volume 162, pages 1,192-1,195 (issn: 0092-8674,

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Authors: Witkin, Evelyn;

doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.08.048

pmid: 26359976

Beginner’s Luck

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On June 5, 1944, I discovered a radiation-resistant mutant of E. coli in my first experiment at the Cold Spring Harbor laboratories. That’s where the new field of bacterial genetics was germinating. I was a Columbia University graduate student, there to learn how to handle E. coli so I could do my doctoral research with bacteria.

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Genetics, Microbial, Microbial Viability, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all), Escherichia coli, New York, Education, Graduate, History, 20th Century

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