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Discovery of DNA Structure
Discovery of DNA by Watson and Crick. -
Period: to
Synthetic Biology Discoveries
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Mathematical Logic
in gene regulation -
Gene
first gene synthesized from scratch (alanine tRNA) -
discovery of restriction enzymes
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human insulation
A synthetic version of the human insulin
gene was constructed and inserted into the bacterium -
PCR
Kary mullis invents PCR -
Viral and Microbial Genomics
they were coupled with the completion of the initial draft of the human genome sequence -
Standardized Parts
Creation of standardized parts libraries at MIT -
Bacterium
first functional, self replicating, bacterium whose entire nucleur genome had been synthesized artificially