CellBioGuy comments on Open Thread May 30 - June 5, 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CellBioGuy 04 June 2016 01:33:55AM *  0 points [-]

The main big thing to come from such a thing would be cheaper synthesis of long pieces of DNA. God I want that. The last three months in the lab would've been so much less painful. I'm mostly with the guy from Ginkgo Bioworks arguing that the ability to make tens of kilobases at a time is most interesting - chromosome sized DNA chunks are damn hard to move in and out of eukaryotic cells reliably.