Researchers To Launch 10-Year Project To Create Synthetic Human Genomes.

reports that the group published the 10-year project on Thursday in the journal Science. The project plans “have already set off an ethical debate, because the ability to chemically fabricate the complete set of human chromosomes could theoretically allow the creation of babies without biological parents.” The project will be run by the Center of Excellence for Engineering Biology and seeks “to raise $100 million this year from various public and private sources.” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/03/science/human-genome-project-write-synthetic-dna.html?_r=0