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A scientist named George Church has a wild idea to upend evolution — here’s what you should know about him STAT
« on: May 22, 2017, 08:50:10 am »
A scientist named George Church has a wild idea to upend evolution — here’s what you should know about him
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    Sharon Begley, STAT

    May 20, 2017, 3:00 PM 50,618



Harvard biologist George Church burst into the headlines (yet again) last week when he helped organize a closed-door meeting of scores of top scientists to discuss accelerating efforts to create synthetic DNA — including a complete human genome.

They’re considering launching a decade-long drive to build, from scratch, all the genes that make humans human.

http://www.businessinsider.com/a-scientist-named-george-church-has-a-wild-idea-to-upend-evolution-2017-5
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Re: A scientist named George Church has a wild idea to upend evolution — here’s what you should know about him STAT
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2017, 08:06:40 pm »
He is a genius and visionary.
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Re: A scientist named George Church has a wild idea to upend evolution — here’s what you should know about him STAT
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2017, 08:40:17 pm »
We have 7 billion humans and we murder so many in the womb, what is the point of making more of them?
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Re: A scientist named George Church has a wild idea to upend evolution — here’s what you should know about him STAT
« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2017, 12:03:21 am »
Should allow the creation of a synthetic genome, which can then be ethically experimented upon to work on curing diseases that have a genetic component.
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