A synthetic project genome goes forward

The work began on a contradictory project to create the building blocks of human life from scratch, which is supposed to be the world at first.

The study has so far been taboo because it could lead to design babies or unforeseen changes for the next generations.

But now the world’s largest medical charity, The Wellcome Trust, has given the initial 10 million pounds to start the project and says it has the potential to do more benefit than the harm, accelerating treatment for many incurable diseases.

D -R Julian Sales from the MRC Lab for Molecular Biology in Cambridge, which is included in the project, told BBC News that the next giant jump in biology.

“The sky is a limit. We are considering therapy that will improve people’s lives as it ages, which will lead to healthy aging with a lesser disease as they grow older.

“We are looking to use this approach to create the cells resistant to the disease that we can use to relocate the damaged organs, such as in the liver and heart, even the immune system,” he said.

But critics fear that the study opens the path of unscrupulous researchers seeking to create enhanced or modified people.

D -R -Pat Thomas, director of the group outside GM, said: “We love to think that all scientists are doing good there, but science can be changed to harm the war as well.”

The project details were provided by the BBC News on the 25th anniversary of the end of the human genome project, which reflected the human DNA molecules, and was largely financed by Wellcome.

Each cell in our body contains a molecule called DNA, which carries the genetic information it. DNA is built of only four much smaller blocks called A, G, C and T, which are repeated again and again in different combinations. Surprisingly, it contains all the genetic information that physically makes us those who are.

The human genome project allowed scientists to read all human genes as a barcode. The new work that is being done is called the synthetic project of the human genome, potentially taking this giant leap forward – it will allow researchers not only to read the DNA molecule, but also to create it – perhaps all this – a molecule from scratch.

The first goal of scientists is to develop ways to create more and more blocks of human DNA, before they synthetically built a human chromosome. They contain genes that regulate our development, repair and maintenance.

Then they can be studied and experimenting to learn more about how genes and DNA regulate our bodies.

According to Professor Matthew Herla, the director of the Wellcome Sanger Sanger, who seques the largest share of the human genome, can cause these genes when these genes are wrong, so studies can improve treatment, according to Professor Matthew Herlo.

“DNA construction from scratch allows us to check how DNA really works and tests new theories because we can only do it only by setting up DNA in DNA that already exists in live systems.”

The project’s work will be limited to test pipes and dishes, and there will be no attempt to create a synthetic life. But technology will give researchers unprecedented control over human systems of life.

And although the project is hunting for medical benefits, there is nothing to stop unscrupulous scientists abuse technology.

For example, they could try to create biological weapons, reinforced people or even creatures who have a person’s DNA, according to Bill Ernsha, a highly respected genetic scientist at the University of Edinburgh, who developed the method of creating artificial chromosomes.

“Ginny comes out of the bottle,” he said BBC News. “Now we might have a set of restrictions, but if an organization that has access to the appropriate equipment decided to start something to synthesize, I don’t think we could stop them”

Ms Thomas are concerned about how technology will be commercialized by healthcare companies that develop the methods of research.

“If we can create synthetic parts of the body or even synthetic people, then who owns. And who owns these creations?”

Given the potential technology abuse, the Wellcome is why they decided to finance it. According to Dr. Tom Collins, who was financing, the decision was made.

“We asked ourselves what the cost of inactivity was,” he said BBC News.

“This technology will be developed once, so, doing so now, we are at least trying to do it as responsibly as possible and withstand ethical and moral questions as an advance as possible.”

In tandem with the scientific development of the project, a specialized social science program works and heads the sociologist Prof. Joy Zhang, at the University of Kent.

“We want to get the views of experts, social scientists and especially the public about how they treat technology and how it can be useful to them, and it is important what questions and problems they have,” she said.