Abstract
THE transmission of genetical characteristics from one strain of bacteria to another by means of deoxyribonucleic acid is now well recognized. However, apart from the claim by Benoit et al. 1 to have altered the hereditable features of certain ducks, the method does not appear to have been applied clearly and successfully to the higher organisms. Nevertheless, it seems theoretically possible, by analogy with the achievements in bacterial transformation, that some characteristics of cancer cells might be transmitted to normal cells by means of tumour deoxyribonucleic acid, and experiments are being carried out here with that end in view.
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