{"id":26560,"date":"2016-06-07T02:02:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T09:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/scientists-plan-to-build-human-genome-from-scratch"},"modified":"2017-04-26T12:52:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T19:52:23","slug":"scientists-plan-to-build-human-genome-from-scratch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/scientists-plan-to-build-human-genome-from-scratch","title":{"rendered":"Scientists plan to build human genome from scratch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-plan-to-build-human-genome-from-scratch.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"\" title=\"synthesizing genomes\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-plan-to-build-human-genome-from-scratch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"241\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"width:560px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><b>Efficiency trends in DNA sequencing (green) and synthesis of double-stranded DNA (dsDNA, blue) and single-stranded DNA (ssDNA, red) over the past ~35 years. The disruptive improvement in sequencing and ssDNA (oligonucleotides) synthesis technologies has improved from multiplex and miniaturization technologies in high-throughput DNA sequencing and oligo microarray technologies, respectively. (credit: Jef D. Boeke et al.\/Science)<\/b><\/div>\n<p>Leading genomics experts have announced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hgpwrite.org \" target=\"_blank\">Genome Project-write<\/a> (HGP-write), which aims to synthesize entire genomes of humans and other species from chemical components and get them to function in living cells.<\/p>\n<p>As explained in <a href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/cgi\/doi\/10.1126\/science.aaf6850\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Science<\/em><\/a>, the goal of HGP-write is to reduce the costs of engineering large genomes, including a human genome, and to develop an ethical framework for genome-scale engineering and transformative medical applications.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/scientists-plan-to-build-human-genome-from-scratch\">http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/scientists-plan-to-build-human-genome-from-scratch<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Efficiency trends in DNA sequencing (green) and synthesis of double-stranded DNA (dsDNA, blue) and single-stranded DNA (ssDNA, red) over the past ~35 years. The disruptive improvement in sequencing and ssDNA (oligonucleotides) synthesis technologies has improved from multiplex and miniaturization technologies in high-throughput DNA sequencing and oligo microarray technologies, respectively. (credit: Jef D. Boeke et al.\/Science) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26560","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26560"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56092,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26560\/revisions\/56092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}