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Nucleic acid transfer using cationic lipids / Natasha J. Caplen -- Optimizing polyethylenimine-based gene transfer into mammalian brain for analysis of promoter regulation and protein function / Barbara A. Demeneix, Mohamed Ghorbel, Daniel Goula -- Gene transfer and drug delivery by electronic pulse delivery : a nonviral delivery approach / Xi Zhao -- Strategies for improving the frequency and assessment of homologous recombination / Nancy Smyth Templeton -- Effective gene transfer using viral vectors based on SV40 / David S. Strayer -- Rapid generation of isogenic mammalian cell lines expressing recombinant transgenes by use of cre recombinase / Brude D. Bethke, Brian Sauer -- Site-directed alteration of genomic DNA by small-fragment homologous replacement / Kaarin K. Goncz, Dieter C. Gruenert -- Mutation correction by homologous recombination with an adenovirus vector / Ayumi Fujita-Kusano ... [et al.] -- Site-specific targeting of DNA plasmids to chromosome 19 using AAV cis and trans sequences / Samuel M. Young, Jr., Weidong Xiao, Richard Jude Samulski -- Adeno-associated virus based gene therapy in skeletal muscle / Richard J. Bartlett, Jesica M. McCue -- Rapid establishment of myeloma cell lines expressing fab(tac)-protamine, a targetable protein vector, directed against high-affinity [alpha]-chain of human interleukin-2 receptor / Sun U. Song, Wayne A. Marasco -- EBV-derived episomes to probe chromatin structure and gene expression in human cells / Juliette Fivaz ... [et al.] -- Triplex-directed site-specific genome modification / Karen M. Vasquez, John H. Wilson -- Use of quantitative ligation-mediated polymerase chain reaction to detect gene targeting by alkylating oligodeoxynucleotides / Howard B. Gamper ... [et al.] -- Gene targeting in plants via site-directed mutagenesis / Peter B. Kipp ... [et al.] -- Antisense oligonucleotides as modulators of pre-mRNA splicing / Halina Sierakowska, Sudhir Agrawal, Ryszard Kole