title: Rambling and scrambling in bacterial transformation--a historical and personal memoir.
authors.affiliation: Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973-5000, USA.
authors.forename: Sanford A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Lacks
mesh_terms: D001432:Bacteriology / Q000266:history*; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D013296:Streptococcus pneumoniae / Q000235:genetics*; D014169:Transformation, Bacterial; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial