"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe."
Posted on 05/03/2017 7:48:45 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Jef Boeke, director of the Institute for Systems Genetics at NYU School of Medicine, told CNBC that incorporating synthesized DNA into mammalian (or even human) cells could happen in four to five years.
This project follows in the footsteps of the Human Genome Project (HGP), the 13-year, $2.7 billion project that enabled scientists to first decode the human genome. "HGP allowed us to read the genome, but we still don't completely understand it," said Nancy Kelley, the coordinator of the new effort, dubbed GP-write. Harvard geneticist George Church, a member of the GP-write leadership group, poses for a portrait inside his lab at Harvard Medical School. He is one of the hosts of the New York City GP-write meeting on May 9-10, 2017.
High school biology covers the basic building blocks for DNA, called nucleotides — adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and thymine (T). Humans' 3 billion pairs provide the blueprints for how to build our cells. The intention of GP-write is to provide a better fundamental understanding of how these pieces work together. Using synthesized genomes has both pragmatic and theoretical implications — it could lead to lower cost and higher quality of DNA synthesis, discoveries about DNA assembly in cells and the ability to test many DNA variations.
"If you do that, you gain a much deeper understanding of how a complicated apparatus goes," Boeke said. Boeke likens the genome to a bicycle — you can only fully understand something once you take it apart and put it back together....
These outcomes, of course, won't happen overnight. Boeke, who has spent years synthesizing yeast DNA, knows there will be plenty of technical hurdles. "Getting big pieces of DNA efficiently into mammalian cells, engineering them rapidly, these will be major challenges," he said.
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As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the days of the coming of the Son of man.
Synthesized DNA...what could possibly go wrong?
The Brotherhood of Steel is against all Synths!
Myrna doesn’t sell to synths.
What they don’t tell you that the end goal is to “make” a human out of this DNA. Funded with out tax dollars, of course.
Dr. Frankenstein’s Monster 2.0?
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe."
Cloning and this kind of thing gives me the creeps.
She’s a suspicious one.
... you gain a much deeper understanding of how a complicated apparatus goes ...
... Boeke likens the genome to a bicycle ...
... there will be plenty of technical hurdles. "Getting big pieces of DNA efficiently into mammalian cells, engineering them rapidly, these will be major challenges," he said.
They talk about Intelligent Design. Right here. Plain as day. But they probably think Intelligent Design is a fairy tale.
If you haven’t loaded this already, you might give it a try. “Amateur” but well thought out and well executed:
Vault 494 - A Vault-Tec Story - New Vault Exploration Mod
http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/videos/5131/?
Just more evidence that Fallout is not a game, it’s a simulation of our future- well, at least the ones who survive our future...
Great! I hope they can build in Round-up Resistance so that our damaged food supply doesn’t matter.
The problem is that once you go down this path, it can't be undone. The consequences will exist forever.
Pretty cool, although I don’t know what she has against teddy bears and skeletons.
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