About Chromosome

[ResearchingAboutJohnTitor]

I'm curious about chromosomes

I research about chromosomes and artificial chromosomes

I have some questions ?
~Can we create an artificial chromosomes?
~Can we put an Healing factor that is faster than people or any species alive here in planet and put it in a chromosome ? is it possible ?
~Can we inject that chromosome with a healing factor that is faster that any species alive here in planet in a human? is it possible ?
Last question ,

~Will it mutate a human that is injected by a Artificial Chromosome with healing factor ?

That's all hope you can answer all of my question.

I'm a Grade 9 student from San Jose National Highschool From Philippines

 

[CharonY]

1) only small ones (like bacterial). Also only partially from scratch. I.e. we can synthesize them with any sequence we want but in order to be functional we still need to use existing ones as template. IOW we do not know enough to create fully artificial ones that would still work when introduced into bacteria. For eukaryotes (such as humans) the structure is more complicated and we are not able to re-create them.

2) no. We do not know all the details of tissue healing. Also, it is a complicated process requiring the concerted efforts of many elements. Thus, there is no singular factor nor can we improve the natural healing processes (genetically).

[MonDie]

 

~Can we inject that chromosome with a healing factor that is faster that any species alive here in planet in a human? is it possible ?

 

This is what viruses do. See lytic and lysogenic cycle for how viruses use the cell's machinery to translate their own genetic material. Gene therapy involves modifying viruses to take advantage of this.

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/genetherapy/gtsuccess/

[Xalatan]

The first eukaryotic chromosome has in fact been synthesised.

 

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/344/6179/55

[CharonY]

Note that this is only a ~300 kB chromosome of yeast (and again using similar principles of synthesis and stitching as before).