what year are you in currently ? This sort of thing is beyond the scope of almost all dissertations I have ever seen by doing this , you are not really proving new ground , but it is resource and time heavy . This means you will probably struggle to find an academic at your uni who will be prepared to support this work . They have to continue their research output , and so in general will only be happy to take on time consuming projects that help them in this goal perhaps some will do so in order to feed the applicant into a phd . From your questions , you clearly don ' t know that much about the area a disseration is 9 months or so , and that ' s not a lot of time to get up to speed with something as advanced as artifical DNA synthesis , considering you have to actually produce the project after you are up to speed . I would imagine a dissertation that involves sending off the bulk of the work to an external company would not score well , and the chance of having access to the facilities for this to be done by you is practically nonexistent if there isn ' t a current PhD researching this area already in place . It ' s a bit like wanting to do a project in manufacturing your own quad core processor . Yeh , sure it ' s cool to say you did it , but you don ' t do anything novel , it costs a lot of cash , requires some pretty specialist equipment that is not widely available , takes up loads of somebodies time to basically guide you through the whole process and that person would likely see no personal benefit from that lost time .