{"id":26469,"date":"2016-06-04T21:02:38","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T04:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/scientists-to-launch-10-year-project-for-creating-human-genomes"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:57:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:57:49","slug":"scientists-to-launch-10-year-project-for-creating-human-genomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/scientists-to-launch-10-year-project-for-creating-human-genomes","title":{"rendered":"Scientists to launch 10-year project for creating human genomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-to-launch-10-year-project-for-creating-human-genomes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hmmmm;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Today a group of 25 <strong>scientists<\/strong> officially announced their plan to build a human genome from scratch within the next 10 years. The proposal \u2014 called the <strong>Human Genome<\/strong> Project-Write \u2014 would be, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/nidhisubbaraman\/synthetic-human-genome?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=News%20-%2006032016%20Friday&utm_content=News%20-%2006032016%20Friday+CID_908efe4b08e38288e679cc0355e14671&utm_source=BuzzFeed%20Newsletters&utm_term=.uwQBLVwWK\" target=\"_blank\">as BuzzFeed News put it<\/a>, to lay \u201cDNA letters like bricks\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The group also includes experts from <a href=\"http:\/\/hms.harvard.edu\/\">Harvard Medical School<\/a>, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the USA government\u2019s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Yale University, the University of Edinburgh, Columbia University, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Washington, Autodesk Bio\/Nano <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/muiQdE\" target=\"_blank\">Research<\/a> Group, Bioeconomy Capital and other institutions, and is led by geneticist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.med.nyu.edu\/research\/boeke-lab\">Jef Boeke<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.med.nyu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">New York University Langone Medical Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The project is expected to be enormously controversial.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/abruzzo.tv\/news\/2016\/06\/05\/scientists-to-launch-10-year-project-for-creating-human\/\">http:\/\/abruzzo.tv\/news\/2016\/06\/05\/scientists-to-launch-10-ye...ing-human\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmmm; Today a group of 25 scientists officially announced their plan to build a human genome from scratch within the next 10 years. The proposal \u2014 called the Human Genome Project-Write \u2014 would be, as BuzzFeed News put it, to lay \u201cDNA letters like bricks\u201d. The group also includes experts from Harvard Medical School, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26469","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\/26469","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26469"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67329,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26469\/revisions\/67329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}