Timeline

• 1982 - recombinant insulin as the first commercial product produced by recombinant dna technology
• 1990 - first use of gene therapy to treat SCID
• 1993 - flav savr tomato
• 1995 - First use of dna test in court OJ simpson trial
• 1997 - cloning of dolly the sheep
• 2003 - completion of human genome project
• 2010 - creation of synthia, the first synthetic microbe