Tianjin, July 16 -- A Chinese research team has made a significant leap in the field of synthetic biology by precisely synthesising and assembling large-scale human DNA and successfully transferring it across species.
This achievement not only advances the technology of human genome synthesis but also opens new avenues for treating genetic disorders, according to the researchers.
The study, conducted by the state key laboratory of synthetic biology at Tianjin University, was recently published in the international journal Nature Methods under the title 'De novo Assembly and Delivery of Synthetic Megabase-Scale Human DNA into Mouse Early Embryos'.
The team, led by Yuan Yingjin, an academician with the Chinese Academy of Sciences,...