George Church
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Why the world needs a DNA-based ‘threat-detection network’ to counter the rapid spread of pathogens
Our ancestors were accustomed to spending their entire lives in walking distance of their birthplace, but our modern world is ...
Podcast: Are you ready for the Zero Dollar Genome?
We've broken through the thousand dollar genome barrier and are heading towards $100. Leading geneticist George Church want to take ...
Geneticist George Church on why gene-edited babies aren’t such a bad thing
[Editor's note: Harvard geneticist George Church has come to the defense of Chinese researcher He Jiankui, who shook up the science ...
Creating a synthetic human–Do science and ethics collide?
A controversy over a 'closed' meeting of 150 scientists discussing the latest research into synthetic biology in humans has sparked ...
Should scientists be permitted to edit human germline? Experts weigh in
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The development of technology ...
Does germline gene editing cross evolutionary lines?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. George Church, professor of ...
Misunderstandings retard growth of personal genomics
Genome sequencing has improved over the years. But misunderstandings about the accuracy and value of the tests abound ...
George Church: De-extinction is a good idea
In its June issue Scientific American published an essay stating emphatically that reanimating species such as woolly mammoths from surviving DNA is ...
