Scientists secret meeting, discusses creating human genome
scientists attended the closed-door meeting at Harvard Medical School are not allowed to communicate with the press agencies or share on social networks.
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Professor Church in the international summit on the issue of genetically engineered by the US Academy of Science held in Washington in December last year. the scientists are planning to create a human genome, using chemical learn to give birth to all the DNA of human chromosomes. Prospects on attracting the curiosity and interest of the international scientific community by the possibility of using synthetic genome to create human without biological parents may occur through cloning. As New York Times, although the project is still in the idea stage and include efforts to improve the methods of DNA synthesis, its content was discussed at a closed-door meeting took place on 10/5 at the School of Medicine Harvard in Boston, USA. Nearly 150 scientists are requested not to contact the press agency or posting information on social networks in time to attend the meeting. The organizers said the project could bring to science large and is the next step of the project towards human genome sequencing three billion chemical units in the human DNA map. Instead of focusing on reading, the goal of the project is to rewrite serial human genome by combining the three billion chemical units from. Ambition on raises many ethical issues, including the possibility to create humans with a certain number of characteristics to become fighters or create a copy of a certain celebrity. "For example, if it was alright when about sequencing and genome synthesis of Einstein? We should create and assemble on how many cells the genome of Einstein and who is going to own them?", Drew Endy , bioengineer at Stanford University and Laurie Zoloth, a bioethics at Northwestern University, criticized the project. Dr Endy, who had participated in the meeting invitation, said he decided to refuse to attend by non-public projects before many people and moral aspects of the work have not been fully considered. George Church, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical school, one of the proposed project, confirmed this is a misunderstanding. The project does not aim to create human that focus only on cells and not only limited to the human genome. Works toward improving the ability to synthesize DNA in general, can be applied to many plants and animals and microorganisms. Church explained unlisted meeting with the media and the participants were asked not to social notified by the organizers of the project study submitted to a scientific journal. Therefore, they are not allowed to publicly discuss the matter before the works published. Church and others in the organizing committee has addressed the moral aspects of the project from the beginning. The project was originally called Project Synthetic human genome (HGP2: The Human Genome Project Synthesis). Contents of invitation to attend the meeting, said the basic purpose of the meeting at Harvard is synthesized a complete human genome in the cell for 10 years. But by the time the meeting took place, its name was changed to experiment large synthetic genome in cell (HGP-Write: Testing Cells in Large Synthetic Genomes). In addition to Dr. Church, the organizers also included Jef Boeke, director of genetics hospital system in Langone Medical Center, New York University and Andrew Hessel, a researcher working at software company Autodesk, who first proposed the project in 2012. The scientists and companies can change the DNA in cultured cells by adding genes taken from outside or change the character of the gene. This technique is often used to produce drugs such as insulin for diabetes or produce genetically modified crops. However, the synthesis of a gene or the entire genome will offer the opportunity to make a difference broader change in DNA. For example, many companies are using organisms such as yeast organizations to create sophisticated chemicals, such as smell and taste. This method not only requires adding a gene transplanted into yeast genes that need to create the complete chemical production inside cells. Synthesis of DNA is still technically difficult and prone to error. Current techniques only allow the creation of sections 200 base pairs and the pairs are basic chemical units of DNA. A gene can contain hundreds or thousands of base pairs. To sum up successful genes, scientists will need to find ways to combine multiple DNA fragments together.
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