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Comment by Nevermark

5 years ago

All that work, when you could just print the optimal (given current knowledge) genome? [1]

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/whole-genome-synt...

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bradleyjg  5 years ago

I’d guess synthesizing a fertilized egg from scratch is further away than in vitro gametogenesis. Could be wrong of course.

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