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Scientists Hold Secret Meeting to Consider Creating a Synthetic Human Genome


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Human genome

Sixty trays can contain the entire human genome as 23,040 different fragments of cloned DNA.

Credit: James King-Holmes/Science Source

Scientists are now contemplating the creation of a synthetic human genome, meaning they would use chemicals to manufacture all the DNA contained in human chromosomes.

From The New York Times
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