{"id":216643,"date":"2025-06-26T06:03:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T11:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/groundbreaking-project-to-make-artificial-human-dna-begins"},"modified":"2025-06-26T06:03:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T11:03:25","slug":"groundbreaking-project-to-make-artificial-human-dna-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/groundbreaking-project-to-make-artificial-human-dna-begins","title":{"rendered":"Groundbreaking project to make artificial human DNA begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/groundbreaking-project-to-make-artificial-human-dna-begins.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a groundbreaking development, scientists have started working on the building blocks of human life from scratch.<\/p>\n<p>The project, dubbed the Synthetic Human Genome Project, is being funded by London-based Wellcome Trust, the World\u2019s largest medical charity, with an initial investment of \u00a310 million (approximately $12.7 million).<\/p>\n<p>The research has been largely considered taboo due to fears that it could lead to designer babies or unintended consequences for future generations.<\/p>\n<p>(That\u2019s not my taboo. Creating Synthetic DNA can lead to the creation of synthetic humans. It can be useful in stopping wildlife extinction, but we don\u2019t know the implications of what happens when we do. TheThe BBC also reported on this. Link in comments) <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Work has started on a groundbreaking, yet contentious, project to create artificial human DNA from scratch, marking a potential world first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a groundbreaking development, scientists have started working on the building blocks of human life from scratch. The project, dubbed the Synthetic Human Genome Project, is being funded by London-based Wellcome Trust, the World\u2019s largest medical charity, with an initial investment of \u00a310 million (approximately $12.7 million). The research has been largely considered taboo due [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}