{"id":25959,"date":"2016-05-23T09:46:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T16:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/is-the-world-ready-for-synthetic-life-scientists-plan-to-create-whole-genomes"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:47:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:47:21","slug":"is-the-world-ready-for-synthetic-life-scientists-plan-to-create-whole-genomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/is-the-world-ready-for-synthetic-life-scientists-plan-to-create-whole-genomes","title":{"rendered":"Is the World Ready for Synthetic Life? Scientists Plan to Create Whole Genomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/is-the-world-ready-for-synthetic-life-scientists-plan-to-create-whole-genomes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last weekend, an invite-only group of about 150 experts convened privately at Harvard. Behind closed doors, they discussed the prospect of designing and building an entire human genome from scratch, using only a computer, a DNA synthesizer and raw materials.<\/p>\n<p>The artificial genome would then be inserted into a living human cell to replace its natural DNA. The hope is that the cell \u201creboots,\u201d changing its biological processes to operate based on instructions provided by the artificial DNA.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, we may soon be looking at the first \u201cartificial human cell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/05\/22\/is-the-world-ready-for-synthetic-life-scientists-plan-to-create-whole-genomes\/?utm_source=Singularity+Hub+Newsletter&utm_campaign=5a912b6614-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_Daily&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f0cf60cdae-5a912b6614-57450241\">http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/05\/22\/is-the-world-ready-for-...5;57450241<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, an invite-only group of about 150 experts convened privately at Harvard. Behind closed doors, they discussed the prospect of designing and building an entire human genome from scratch, using only a computer, a DNA synthesizer and raw materials. The artificial genome would then be inserted into a living human cell to replace its [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25959","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50432,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25959\/revisions\/50432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}