{"id":26463,"date":"2016-06-04T18:48:40","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T01:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/the-next-genetics-moonshot-building-a-human-genome-from-scratch"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:57:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:57:51","slug":"the-next-genetics-moonshot-building-a-human-genome-from-scratch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/the-next-genetics-moonshot-building-a-human-genome-from-scratch","title":{"rendered":"The Next Genetics Moonshot: Building a Human Genome from Scratch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-next-genetics-moonshot-building-a-human-genome-from-scratch.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, it\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the organizers want to make one thing very clear: \u2018We\u2019re not planning to make synthetic people,\u2019 says a somewhat exasperated Jef Boeke, one of the champions of this proposal. \u2018We never were.\u2019<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The Human Genome Project-Write could bring down the cost of DNA manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/the-human-os\/biomedical\/devices\/the-next-genetics-moonshot-building-a-human-genome-from-scratch\">http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/the-human-os\/biomedical\/devices\/the...om-scratch<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it\u2019s 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.\u201d \u201cBut [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26463","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\/26463","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\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67333,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26463\/revisions\/67333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}