It is important here to distinguish between the terms transfection and transformation. While the term transfection is used when the host cells are eukaryotic, the term transformation is used to denote ...

Both transfection and transformation are used to introduce foreign DNA into cells; however they differ in their context, applications and the type of cells involved, as summarized in Table 1. Table 1: ...

and viral transfection approaches, electroporation alone provides a reasonable certainty of success regardless of the target cell or organism. For example, chemical transformation and ...