Bacterial Transformation

Introduces foreign DNA into bacteria by briefly making their membrane transiently permeable, using either a heat shock or an electric pulse.

References

• Cohen, S.N., Chang, A.C., Boyer, H.W., Helling, R.B. "Construction of Biologically Functional Bacterial Plasmids in Vitro." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 70, no. 11 (1973): 3240–3244.