MentalUproar t1_izjzh7l wrote on December 9, 2022 at 5:45 PM

Reply to comment by KnoWanUKnow2 in Are there any viruses that humans must have in/on our bodies in order to stay alive? by [deleted]

Has there ever been an attempt at creating a “pure” human, either by removing nonessential DNA fragments or building the genome from scratch?

KnoWanUKnow2 t1_izk4jwb wrote on December 9, 2022 at 6:15 PM

Humans? No. For ethical reasons there probably never will be.

But they have done it with other things such as bacteria. They've even created an entirely new organism by creating DNA from scratch with just a few genes and inserting it into a bacterial cell that had it's DNA removed.