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Jun 4, 2016

The Next Genetics Moonshot: Building a Human Genome from Scratch

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Yes, it’s true that a group of leading geneticists is calling for the construction of a synthetic human genome. That means they want to take 3 billion chemical building blocks and assemble them into one complete package of DNA, encoding all the body parts and life processes that make up a functional human being.”

“But the organizers want to make one thing very clear: ‘We’re not planning to make synthetic people,’ says a somewhat exasperated Jef Boeke, one of the champions of this proposal. ‘We never were.’


The Human Genome Project-Write could bring down the cost of DNA manufacturing.

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