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Work begins to create artificial human DNA from scratch (www.bbc.com)
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[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 2 points 2 weeks ago

You need more than synthetic chromosomes to build artificial people. In fact, you don't even need synthetic chromosomes at all. They really have nothing to do with each other.