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 |  Subject: To Build A Better ‘Man’—Scientists To Synthesize Entire Human Genome From Scratch  Tue Jun 07, 2016 7:37 am | |
| To Build A Better ‘Man’—Scientists To Synthesize Entire Human Genome From Scratch
June 7, 2016 by SkyWatch Editor
 Back in May, nearly 150 scientists held a secret meeting at Harvard University to discuss a plan to craft synthetic human genomes. Now, amid much criticism, the team has published its proposal in Thursday’s issue of Science. The proposal reveals the launch of a project that hopes to decrease the cost of synthetic genomes, which could allow technicians to grow human organs for transplantation at a much lower cost than current transplants. In addition, the proposal reveals a breakthrough in RNA editing, a molecule closely related to DNA and integral for the synthesis of human genetic code. The team hopes to eventually create a synthetic genome project on the same scale as the Human Genome Project (HGP) seen in the 1990s, which was responsible for the sequencing of the first human genomes. However, the new project, dubbed the “Genome Project-write,” will be “writing” genetic codes instead of “reading” them. (READ MORE) |
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