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科研还有没有边界?

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    当克隆技术出现时,人们惊呼人可能会取代上帝造人了;但是实质上,克隆只是将一个细胞繁殖、培养成一个个体的技术,离上帝造人还是有些距离。而现在,有科学家想要合成人类基因组,如果这种目的一旦实现,这可就与“上帝造人”有点类似了。

    读懂"天书"——人类基因组——是一回事,合成“天书”又是另一回事。但真正读懂“天书”,还需要能合成“天书”。现在洋人要搞合成人类基因组了,中国也不能落后呀。

 

科学家“秘密”探讨合成人类基因组

顶级科学家秘密会面讨论人工合成人类基因组

Why Harvard held a 'secret' synthetic human genome meeting

Grappling with science that makes us squirm

Science has a way of making people uncomfortable. Sometimes that's because it seems likely to produce agents of harm; think of nuclear weapons research. Sometimes, though, for reasons less obvious, it just feels weird. That's what happened nearly 20 years ago when scientists cloned a sheep named Dolly, and again last week when word got out that a group of biologists held a closed meeting at Harvard to talk about using laboratory chemicals to create a complete set of human DNA - a human genome. Both ideas freaked people out because they called into question the imagined boundaries between the living and the non-living, the natural and the artificial. Critics questioned what should be done with

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