The Gene: An Intimate History
by Siddhartha Mukherjee · 16 May 2016 · 824pp · 218,333 words
DNA is a little side-show, but every disease that’s with us is caused by DNA. And [every disease] can be fixed by DNA. —George Church While human gene therapy was exiled to wander its scientific tundra in the late 1990s, human genetic diagnosis experienced a remarkable renaissance. To understand this
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, no. 6096 (2012): 816–21. this technique has exploded: Key contributors to the use of CRISPR/Cas9 in human cells include Feng Zhang (MIT) and George Church (Harvard). See, for instance, L. Cong et al., “Multiplex genome engineering using CRISPR/Cas systems,” Science 339, no. 6121 (2013): 819–23; and F. A
WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
by Tim O'Reilly · 9 Oct 2017 · 561pp · 157,589 words
’s art but through the next steps in the path trod by Luther Burbank? Amazing work is happening today in synthetic biology and gene engineering. George Church and his colleagues at Harvard are beginning a controversial ten-year project to create from scratch a complete human genome. Ryan Phelan and Stewart Brand
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.com/news/2015_05_may/11_may_3d_makeover_for_hyper-effi cient_metalwork. 328 create from scratch a complete human genome: Jef D. Boeke, George Church, Andrew Hessel, Nancy J. Kelley, et al., “The Genome Project-Write,” Science, July 8, 2016, 126–27, doi:10.1126/science.aaf6850. For a popular
More From Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources – and What Happens Next
by Andrew McAfee · 30 Sep 2019 · 372pp · 94,153 words
use of the DNA that remains in their corpses. Brand is a prominent exponent of this “de-extinction” movement and is working with the geneticist George Church and others to adapt an elephant into a species more akin to a woolly mammoth.II Second, we’re fighting to preserve some of the
1,000 Places to See in the United States and Canada Before You Die, Updated Ed.
by Patricia Schultz · 13 May 2007 · 2,323pp · 550,739 words
would be “German in every particular.” Today Hermann retains its delightfully Old World character, with original 19th-century architecture, interesting shops, and gnarled grapevines. St. George Church’s mid-19th-century steeple towers over the quaint town of Hermann. When the first settlers arrived they found steep terrain unsuitable for farming, but
Immortality, Inc.
by Chip Walter · 7 Jan 2020 · 232pp · 72,483 words
never say so outright—these views had to include the thinking of Ray Kurzweil and Aubrey de Grey—and, in December 2015, Harvard genetics professor George Church, who announced at an international summit in Washington, D.C., that he was confident he could reverse aging inside of five or six years. Now
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George Church was not some second-rate, white lab coat bumpkin. He was co-founder of Harvard’s vaunted Wyss Institute, a member of the National Academy
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He Can Cure Aging, But Is That a Good Idea.” Washington Post (Achenblog), December 2, 2015. washingtonpost.com/news/achenblog/wp/2015/12/02/professor-george-church-says-he-can-reverse-the-aging-process. Asian Scientist Newsroom. “Removing Old Cells Could Prevent Arthritis.” Asian Scientist, June 14, 2017. Baer, Drake. “5 Amazing
What to Think About Machines That Think: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence
by John Brockman · 5 Oct 2015 · 481pp · 125,946 words
. CARR The Control Crisis JON KLEINBERG & SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN We Built Them, but We Don’t Understand Them JAAN TALLINN We Need to Do Our Homework GEORGE CHURCH What Do You Care What Other Machines Think? ARNOLD TREHUB Machines Cannot Think ROY BAUMEISTER No “I” and No Capacity for Malice KEITH DEVLIN Leveraging
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best contain it—and we don’t even call that nuclear ethics. We call it common sense. WHAT DO YOU CARE WHAT OTHER MACHINES THINK? GEORGE CHURCH Professor of genetics, Harvard Medical School; director, Harvard University’s Personal Genome Project; coauthor (with Ed Regis), Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and
Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life
by J. Craig Venter · 16 Oct 2013 · 285pp · 78,180 words
) by Frederick Blattner, at the University of Wisconsin, in 20023 in an attempt to make it a more reliable chassis for industrial production. At Harvard, George Church’s lab developed a method called MAGE—multiplex automated genome engineering—to replace a codon in thirty-two strains of E. coli, then planned to
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session over a twenty-month period to discuss the ethical and societal implications of synthetic genomics. We (I was among the core members, which included George Church, Drew Endy, Tom Knight, and Ham Smith) published our findings in October of 2007 as Synthetic Genomics: Options for Governance.29 All the while I
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McGee, and the Ethics of Genomics Group. “Ethical considerations in synthesizing a minimal genome.” Science 286, no. 5447 (December 10, 1999): pp. 2087–90. 20. George Church and Ed Regis. Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves (New York: Basic Books, 2012), p. 9. 21. Cho, et. al, “Ethical Considerations
Turing's Cathedral
by George Dyson · 6 Mar 2012
for measuring advantages,” Turing argued in 1950. “The experimenter, by the exercise of intelligence, should be able to speed it up.”51 The entrepreneurial genomicist George Church recently announced, concerning biotechnology’s success in the laboratory, “We are able to program these cells as if they were an extension of the computer
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Institute, April 25–26, 1966 (Philadelphia: Wistar Institute, 1966), p. 67; Alan Turing, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” Mind 59, no. 236 (October 1950): 456. 52. George Church, West Hollywood, Calif., July 26, 2009, EDGE Foundation, “A Short Course on Synthetic Genomics” (http://edge.org/event/master-classes/the-edge-master-class-2008
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Neumann on Zworykin Chicago, University of, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 9.1 Church, Alonzo (1903–1995), 13.1, 13.2, 13.3 Church, George Church-Turing thesis Clarke, Benjamin classification (secrecy), 5.1, 5.2, 13.1, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3 Clippinger, Richard (1913–1997) cloud computing Cocktail
Beyond Inheritance: Our Ever-Mutating Cells and a New Understanding of Health
by Roxanne Khamsi; · 21 Apr 2026 · 335pp · 91,958 words
’s a hope it could be tailored as a genome-surveillance tool to look for—and correct—mutations. The venture, aptly named Spellcheck Bio, counts George Church, a geneticist at Harvard University and serial entrepreneur, as one of its cofounders. Beyond DNA repair and gene editing there are even more ideas about
Warnings
by Richard A. Clarke · 10 Apr 2017 · 428pp · 121,717 words
believe that improvements to the technology will soon render it safe enough for experimentation on humans, if we haven’t reached that point already. Dr. George Church, a geneticist at Harvard and a signatory of the commentary that laid out the Napa conference’s recommendations, estimates that advances could yield an error
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