ABSTRACT This paper pursues the history of biology and technology in tandem. It focuses on DNA’s materiality regardless of informational properties. My emphasis on ‘making’ integrates attention to cultures of work in material histories of biology with analyses of the development of technical apparatuses and machines. When it comes to the history of DNA synthesis our materials are as much chemical as they are biological, which means that there is really a third history present, one that also needs to be drawn in, but on its own terms. I demonstrate the ways in which different chemistries have been combined with different technologies, all together affording different arrangements of personnel and biological science. It is a history of how synthesised DNA first came to be, became desired, and became a commodity, available for inclusion in a wide variety of experiments and experimental systems. This method could be replicated for other ‘experimental commodities’.

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制作 DNA 并使其成为一种实验商品

摘要 本文探讨了生物学和技术的历史。它专注于 DNA 的物质性，而不考虑信息属性。我对“制造”的强调将关注生物学物质史中的工作文化与对技术设备和机器发展的分析相结合。当谈到 DNA 合成的历史时，我们的材料既是化学的又是生物的，这意味着确实存在第三种历史，也需要根据其自身的条件进行绘制。 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 我展示了不同化学与不同技术相结合的方式，共同提供了不同的人员和生物科学安排。这是一段关于合成 DNA 是如何诞生、成为人们渴望并成为一种商品的历史，可用于各种实验和实验系统。这种方法可以复制到其他“实验商品”上。