Score for Genetic Science

So, recently, scientists created a synthetic yeast chromosome for the first time. That may not sound like a lot, but it's eye-poppingly amazing.

I mean, it took a top scientist 15 years and 40 million dollars to synthesize a procaryote cell chromosome, specifically a bacterial virus. The yeast chromosome was created by undergraduates only a third of the time and a quarter of the funds to make the eukaryotic cell chromosome which makes up yeast, and eukaryotic cell chromosomes are considerably more complicated. But wait, there's more. The synthetic yeast chromosome is fully functioning, living and adapting. It's mind boggling.

Here's the process:

The science is pretty incredible. We're playing God, and it's only a matter of time before we start making genetically synthetic dogs, cats, humans even. Let's just hope that our ethics will still be around by that point.