50 years ago, synthetic DNA made its debut
Excerpt from the December 30, 1967 issue of Science News
TAILOR-MADE A semisynthetic strain of Escherichia coli makes glowing green proteins using amino acids not found in nature.
William B. Kiosses
Viable synthetic DNA
[Scientists] produced in a test tube a totally artificial copy of a type of DNA virus.… The particular type of viral DNA (called Phi X174) the researchers made is an extremely simple molecule of only five or six genes.