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Image 1. Josef Jiricny’s automated synthesis machine, using the phosphotriester approach.Pulled together with various parts from around the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. I am very grateful to Dr. Jiricny for permission to publish.
Image 2. Left) New Scientist, 29th January 1981, 261. This cartoon accompanies an article on the ‘seamier’ side of DNA synthesis machines, i.e. that some of the commercial players are not to be trusted and that experience with machines has not always matched expectations. This helps evidence the kind of world that professional members of the synthesis knowledge community came to occupy. Right) New Scientist, 23rd May 1985, 22. This cartoon accompanies an article on recent improvements in synthesis capacity developed in Germany which are explicitly contrasted with the ‘limitations’ of the ABI machine. The first cartoon to feature DNA synthesis in New Scientist was published 24th October 1963, p. 224 by the cartoonist Bax, whose identity could not be uncovered.
