A controversial project Human building blocks Life has started.
It was earlier Thought to make human DNA could lead to designer babies Or Unexpected complications And changes for future generations.
However, first in a world, medical donation Welcome TrustThe project is given an initial £ 10m to start.
Scientists say that it has the ability to change the understanding of human health, develop treatment for incurable diseases and change open opportunities to develop climate-resistant crops.
Michael Dun, director of Discovery Research at Welcome, said, “Our DNA determines who we are and how our bodies work.” “Through creating the equipment and methods required to synthesize a human genome, we will answer questions about our health and illness, which we can not guess yet, change our understanding of life and goodness in return.”
In the next five to ten years, scientists aim to build a complete synthetic human chromosome.
Each cell of the human body contains DNA, a molecule that carries genetic information that physically forms those they are.
The new synthetic human genome project will potentially allow researchers not only to be able to read DNA, but will be able to create parts of it.
Scientists will first aim to create large blocks of human DNA, so that an artificially manufactured a human chromosome can be created – which include genes that control our growth, repair and maintenance.
These chromosomes will then be studied to find out how genes and DNAs regulate our body.
The project is headed by Professor Jason Chin from the Generative Biology Institute at Alison Institute of Technology and Oxford University, which is in collaboration with the team of researchers from Cambridge, Kent, Manchester, Oxford and Imperial College London.
Professor Chin said, “The ability of human cells to synthesize large genomes including genomes, genome can change our understanding of biology and change the horizon of biotechnology and medicine deeply.”
The project will be limited to testing tubes and Petri recipes, in which there will be no attempt to create synthetic life.
But critics fear that researchers open the way for researchers to create or modified humans.
A genetic Professor Bill Ineshow, a genetic scientist at the University of Edinburgh, who has prepared a method to create artificial human chromosomes, fears that this research can open an opportunity to create biological weapons, enlarged humans or even those that have human DNA.
“Jinn is out of the bottle,” he told BBC News. “We can now have a set of sanctions, but if an organization that has access to the appropriate machinery, decided to start anything synthesis, I don’t think we can stop them.”
Kent University will also have a dedicated social science project along with researchers under the leadership of Professor Joy Zhang at Kent University.
“We want to get experts, social scientists and especially the public views of how they are related to technology and how it can be beneficial for them and what questions and concerns they have significantly,” he said.