The team or researcher from the United Kingdom is operating where scientists do not dare to write DNA artificial humans from the beginning. They hope that the project will answer basic questions about human genomes and change our understanding about health and disease.
But the research topic is for clear reasons, arguments Most scientists lead to effymnomic, synthetic humans, be careful to push us into Dystopian. Gattaca-EsQue Future Full or designer
The Wellcome Trust is now the largest medical charity in the world has increased by approximately 11.7 million dollars (10 million pounds) in order to start the synthetic genome (Synhg). Charity organizations say that benefits are greater than the risk. Technology says that it can be used to create new medical treatment, such as cell treatment of designers and tissue transplantation that resist the virus.
Jason Chin, Professor of Oxford, will be the project leader by collaborating with universities and other research centers in the United Kingdom in the next half of the year.
“The ability to synthesize large genomes, including genomes for human cells, may change our understanding about the biology, genome, and the scope of biotechnology and medical in depth,” Shin said in a statement.
The Welcome Trust also supports important funds for the Human Genome project, which is completed 25 years ago. In fact, creating human genomes from nothing more ambitious and expected to take several years, it may take many decades. E color Bacteria, but small potatoes next to human genomes, which are approximately 700 times larger
“If you think about human genomes, it is more than just the outfit of the gene in the string.” Julian sells the group leader at MRC. Laboratory or molecular biologytell Guardian– “There are many terrifying genomes. Sometimes it is called the dark substance of the genome that we don't know what it is. The idea is that if you can successfully create a geome, you can understand them fully.”
The first step of a scientist is to create a full synthetic human chromosome, which the researchers plan to manage in the next five to ten years. Which is different from the amendment of the genome, which works In one or a handful or gene at onceSynthesis that is considered to change the DNA researchers to a larger level. It can help determine our large DNA. -Make people that we don't know much -Our health and characteristics
“The ability to synthesize large genomes, including genomes for human cells, may change our understanding about the biology, genome, and the scope of biotechnology and medical in depth,” Shin said in a statement.
Some researchers are worried that the ability to write human genetic code may enable researchers to control the human life system horrible. One day, it may be used to create a synthesis of biological weapons or even human life, Bill Earnshaw, genetic scientists at the University of Edinbera. BBC News– But he added that the technology needed to do those things is still quite far
The project is trying to deal with the ethical problems with the creation of human genomes. The Wellcome Trust is raising a parallel research on social issues and ethics of human genome in the Joy Zhang laboratory at the University of Kent.
“This technology will be developed one day. Therefore, by doing this, at least we try to make it as the most responsible method and face ethics and moral questions. BBC News