In June 2012, a single-molecule version of this experiment was published that determined the precise time needed for ejection, and it was this study that prompted Linus Pauling to begin work on nucleic acids.
In June 2012, a single-molecule version of this experiment was published that determined the precise time needed for ejection, and it was this study that prompted Linus Pauling to begin work on nucleic acids. The results of this experiment depended on "osterizing" the culture samples, which required the use of a Waring blender to separate  "ghosts" from cells. The main components under study were labeled with radioactive sulfur-35 and phosphorus-32, allowing the polymers making up T2 to be distinguished. After centrifugation, this experiment determined that viral DNA—but not bacteriophage capsids—had entered the bacterial cells. Published just a year before Watson and Crick's double helix model, name this doubly eponymous genetics experiment that proved DNA rather than protein was the hereditary material.
In June 2012, a single-molecule version of this experiment was published that determined the precise time needed for ejection, and it was this study that prompted Linus Pauling to begin work on nucleic acids.
{Hershey}-{Chase} experiment [or {Chase}-{Hershey} experiment]