Talk:Gene gun

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

WikiProject Genetics This article is part of WikiProject Genetics, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to genetics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit this page, or visit the project page to join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
??? This article has not yet received a rating on the quality scale.
??? This article has not yet received an importance rating.
Molecular and Cellular Biology WikiProject
MCB Portal
This article is within the scope of the Molecular and Cellular Biology WikiProject. To participate, visit the WikiProject for more information. The WikiProject's current monthly collaboration is focused on improving Restriction enzyme.
B This article has been rated as b-Class on the assessment scale.
Low This article is on a subject of low-importance within molecular and cellular biology.

Article Grading: The article has been rated for quality and/or importance but has no comments yet. If appropriate, please review the article and then leave comments here to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article and what work it will need.

Hope you like this article. My Cornell B.S. in Biology is now finally worth something. Raazer

Nice to see B.S. not going to waste (I'll have mine in a few months). Do you think Biolistics should be redirected here, or would it be a different enough topic to require an individual page.--ZZ 12:00, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Nice to meet other interested people.

  • Lots of people might be involved in the study of biolistics, maybe you or your professors. If there is a study of biolistics, it would be a separate subject from one of the tools used in it (the particle delivery system)
  • Edited this reply to make it shorter Raazer 22:03, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)

The John Sanford link connects to the entry for the writer, not the biologist.

Hi, it's good to see a comprehensive article, along with the history of the development of gene guns. However, is it possible to add some time reference (e.g. 1970s), so people can know when the technology came into being? --163.7.4.8 21:01, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup thoughts

In my opinion, this page could use some major cleanup and rewrites.

  • The introductory paragraph is a good start, but could use some expansion and certainly a fix of the typographical errors.
  • The "design" section should probably be broken into a few different sections: let's say "history" and maybe "theory of operation". This section could also greatly benefit from rewrites and copyediting.
  • "Application" could use some work -- like some elaboration on how the injected DNA makes its way into the plant chromosome (links to appropriate articles would be great).

Thoughts? --Iknowyourider (talk) 03:21, 14 June 2007 (UTC)