the main issue is that we only really know what a fraction of the human genetic code is directly responsible for.
we would need a lot of experimentation to figure out what's safe to remove.
you can think about it as a physical "dependency hell"
we would need a lot of experimentation to figure out what's safe to remove.
you can think about it as a physical "dependency hell"
Besides that... we need to understand how a cell recognizes its purpose in its local environment - some kind of local communication probably. If we knew what the various environments that control cell responses are, we would have the basis for something like unit tests... and then we could try randomly removing parts of the DNA and see if its failing to perform as expected or not.