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Foreign genetic material, in amounts too small to determine the synthesis of foreign surface antigens, can be incorporated into somatic cells by a special application of the technique of cell fusion. The interpolated genetic material is expressed and replicated in the foreign environment.
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SCHWARTZ, A., COOK, P. & HARRIS, H. Correction of a Genetic Defect in a Mammalian Cell. Nature New Biology 230, 5–8 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio230005a0
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