Superimmune Cell Lines Courtesy of Synthetic Biology

If you write it, they will come. The “it” in this case is the human genome, and the “they” are biomedical researchers and drug developers in need of cell lines resistant to viruses, cancer, or damage from aging, freezing, and radiation. Such cell lines would be “ultra-safe,” suggest participants in the Genome Project-write (GP-write).To render cells ultra-safe, and thus simpler and less expensive to maintain, GP-write intends to lead a community-wide recoding