Resumen de Synthetic humans are go
Adee investigates synthetic biologists' plan to chemically synthesize the human genome. The team, which counts among its leaders the maverick geneticist George Church, says it is aiming to launch the ambitious initiative this year, depending on raising an initial L100 million. The primary goal of the Human Genome Project-Write, as it is known, is to engineer large genomes of up to 100 billion base pairs, including whole genome engineering of human cell lines and other organisms of agricultural and public health significance, the team writes. This will require technological development early on in the project to propel large-scale genome design and engineering. The artificial genome won't be derived from any one person, but will be created using computer-aided design--one of the main players is software company Autodesk.
