George Church

Harvard Medical School / Synthetic Human Genome Project

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Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and one of the organizers of the Synthetic Human Genome Project; author of Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves

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Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1996, but no human being has ever been duplicated.  Now there's the possibility of creating a human from scratch.

The quest for synthetic humans

Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1996, but no human being has ever been duplicated.  Now there's the possibility of creating a human from scratch.

from To the Point

Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1996, but no human being has ever been duplicated.  Now there's the possibility of creating a human from scratch.

The Quest for Synthetic Humans

Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1996, but no human being has ever been duplicated.  Now there's the possibility of creating a human from scratch.

from To the Point

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