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1996
 
    
Dolly the Sheep is cloned in an epoch-making experiment at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh       
Reflections on cloning
Wellcome Library, London
1999
 
    
Chromosome 22 becomes the first human genome to be fully sequenced, at the Sanger Institute in Cambridge, England       
Read-out from gene sequencer
Wellcome Photo Library
2000
 
   
A White House ceremony celebrates a full draft of the human genome completed by two rival projects      
2010  May 20
 
    
Geneticist Craig Venter announces that his team have inserted the genome of a bacterium into a cell to create the world's first synthetic life form       
22013  January 21
 
    
Scientists at Cambridge university prove that there is quadruple helix DNA in humans, promising potential protection against cancer