What the HEK?
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...transfect the ‘helper’ plasmids (viral packaging machinery) along with the viral plasmid containing the cargo...Netherlands. Transformation of HEK cells with adenovirus 5 DNA was postdoc Frank Graham’s 293rd experiment, hence...T-antigen. This allows them to replicate viral plasmids with the SV40 origin of replication. To generate...