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1953 Nature magazine published James Watson's and Francis Crick's manuscript describing the double helix structure of DNA.
1977 Genentech, Inc., reports the production of the first human protein manufactured in a bacteria: somatostatin, a human growth hormone-releasing inhibitory factor. For the first time, a synthetic, recombinant gene was used to clone a protein. Many consider this to be the advent of the Age of Biotechnology.
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