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| Genome Project Aims to Build Human Cells That Are Impervious to Viruses
One serious thing to consider with this plan is that nature seems to use things like viruses to regulate population and even improve immune systems naturally, which in turn promotes the health of a species as would be evident over time when the species procreates. It would seem this would counter act those checks and balances, this could be a disastrous plan with dire long term consequences in my opinion. via Gizmodo: Two years ago, a consortium of scientists, lawyers, and entrepreneurs announced a plan to synthesize an artificial human genome from scratch—an extremely ambitious endeavor that's struggled to secure funding. Project organizers have now disclosed details of a scaled-down version of the venture, but with a goal that's still quite audacious: creating human cells that are invulnerable to infections. It's called Project Recode, and it's a downsized version of Human Genome Project-Write, or GP-Write. Originally, the leaders of the project, including Harvard