The Transforming Principle. Discovering that Genes Are Made of DNA. SIGNED BY MACLYN McCARTY

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Published by New York & London: W. W. Norton, 1985.

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252 pp; illustrations. Original cloth-backed boards. Very Good, in dust jacket (the dust jacket is not price-clipped!; more photos of the dust jacket are available, upon request). First Edition. SIGNED BY MACLYN McCARTY (dated 16 May 1985; see photo). McCarty was co-author with Oswald T. Avery and Colin M. Macleod of the important paper published in 1944 on DNA as the hereditary material in bacterial transformation, "Studies on the Chemical Nature of the Substance Inducing Transformation of Pneumococcal Types. Induction of Transformation by a Desoxyribonucleic Acid Fraction Isolated from Pneumococcus Type III" (Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol. 79, 1944, pp. 137-58). Seller Inventory # 16831

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Title: The Transforming Principle. Discovering that...

Publisher: New York & London: W. W. Norton, 1985.

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

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