Design Your Own Baby Coming Soon? Could Be Within Five Years

In New York, Jef Boeke, Director of the Institute for Systems Genetics at New York University, told The Daily Mail that artificial human DNA will be created in the next four to five years. As part of the Human Genome Project, this new project is called Human Genome Project-write (HGP-write) and the goal is to artificially create human DNA grown in a lab. One reason it hasn’t been done yet? The cost is pretty high, as it currently costs about 23 cents to synthesize a single base pair and the human genome is made up of three billion base pairs. But leading scientists warned it’s only about five years away given the strides made in recent years with gene-editing, which is leaving some people afraid of what this means for humanity when you can start editing human creations.