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Artificial chromosomes: a blueprint for the future?
1Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T. 2600, Australia.
Biologist (London, England)
|February 24, 2001
Abstract:
Recent developments in molecular genetics have led to the synthesis of an artificial human chromosome. Because the chromosome replicates and divides normally in human cells, this has exciting possibilities in terms of mankind's ability to influence evolutionary processes and to modify the human genome.