title: Artificial chromosomes: a blueprint for the future?
abstract: Recent developments in molecular genetics have led to the synthesis of an artificial human chromosome. Because the chromosome replicates and divides normally in human cells, this has exciting possibilities in terms of mankind's ability to influence evolutionary processes and to modify the human genome.
authors.affiliation: Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T. 2600, Australia.
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authors.lastname: Shaw
mesh_terms: D002503:Centromere; D022201:Chromosomes, Artificial; D019020:Directed Molecular Evolution; D015894:Genome, Human; D006801:Humans; D016615:Telomere