{"id":217149,"date":"2025-07-03T22:10:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T03:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/first-step-towards-an-artificial-human-genome-now-underway"},"modified":"2025-07-03T22:10:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T03:10:40","slug":"first-step-towards-an-artificial-human-genome-now-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/first-step-towards-an-artificial-human-genome-now-underway","title":{"rendered":"First Step Towards an Artificial Human Genome Now Underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-step-towards-an-artificial-human-genome-now-underway.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/we-now-have-the-most-complete-gapless-sequence-of-the-human-genome-in-dazzling-detail\">sequencing a full human genome<\/a> wasn\u2019t tricky enough, scientists are now attempting to reconstruct our species\u2019 genetic material from the ground up.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an ambitious and controversial project called the Synthetic Human Genome (SynHG) project, and work has already begun on a proof-of-concept.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of this crucial first step is to use the human genome blueprint to write the genetic code for a single, enormously long strand of DNA in just one of our chromosomes \u2013 making up approximately 2 percent of our total genome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if sequencing a full human genome wasn\u2019t tricky enough, scientists are now attempting to reconstruct our species\u2019 genetic material from the ground up. It\u2019s an ambitious and controversial project called the Synthetic Human Genome (SynHG) project, and work has already begun on a proof-of-concept. The goal of this crucial first step is to use [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217149","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}