Nature Milestones in DNA Technologies
Editorial
The Milestones are a series of specially written articles and commentaries, which highlight the most influential discoveries in the field of DNA over the past half-century. Milestones in DNA Technologies also includes specially commissioned commentaries as well as a collection of selected articles and an online-only NPG library of recent research papers and reviews organized according to appropriate subject areas.
Milestones timeline
The Milestones are ordered along a chronological timeline — the first one dating from 1952 and the most recent one from 2006 — according to the year in which the oldest original research paper associated with the Milestone was published.
Commentaries
Four of our Milestones advisors share their views on the history and applications of diverse aspects of DNA technologies in specially-commissioned commentaries.
Collection articles
Articles that were selected for the collection have been previously published by the Nature Publishing Group and comprise a feature, a review and an article.
NPG library
The online-only library contains recent research and review-type articles on the topic of DNA from the Nature Publishing Group.
Advisors
The papers that were highlighted in the Milestones were chosen with the help of a panel of expert advisors.
Sponsors
Nature Milestones in DNA Technologies was produced with support from Qiagen, which enabled free access to this content for the first six months.