The Bauxite Mines (1942), mural by Julius Woeltz for the U.S. Post Office in Benton, Arkansas
Homer, The Iliad, Book XII, line 493. Bryant’s translation.
We are living in what some call a Golden Age of genome engineering. It is now possible for researchers to read DNA sequences, and then directly modify existing DNA sequences to investigate gene function, or create new DNA sequences to synthesize novel biological systems. The technology for these advances have rapidly matured during the last decade.