Experts
George Church
Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
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When the Doctor Becomes the Patient
Genomics pioneer George Church found that cutting-edge medical technology added years to his own life. Read More
May 18, 2009 | In Health & Medicine
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Inside the Nature vs. Nurture Debate
George Church reveals the secrets to holistic physiology. Read More
November 15, 2007 | In History
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The gap between diagnosis and treatment. Read More
November 15, 2007 | In Health & Medicine, Science & Tech
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Re: What is the social impact of science?
Is the tide really rising? Read More
November 15, 2007 | In World
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Re: Are science and religion compatible?
Just admit you don't know something. Read More
November 14, 2007 | In Belief, Science & Tech
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Re: Can science solve our biggest problems?
Eliminating poverty would improve our species's chance for survival. Read More
November 14, 2007 | In World
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Re: What makes humans different from other species?
We are a species that is well connected to other species; whether or not we evolve from them, we are certainly very closely related to them. Yet, we have things like spirituality and reason; we have the ability to completely change our environment, to inherit, in a certain sense, things far beyond our DNA as our ideas evolve and undergo a kind of Darwinian selection. Read More
November 14, 2007 | In Identity
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The personal genomics revolution will fuel interest in science, Church says. Read More
November 14, 2007 | In Health & Medicine, Science & Tech
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“Why would anybody want a computer?” Read More
November 14, 2007 | In Science & Tech
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George Church on the Future of Genomics
Church remembers watching the first DNA folding. Read More
November 14, 2007 | In Science & Tech
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Re: Does the open-source genomics present any bioethical dilemmas?
George Church, on the risks and benefits of genetic mapping. Read More
November 14, 2007 | In Health & Medicine, Science & Tech
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Why do Americans think they have "math block"? Read More
November 14, 2007 | In History
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Terrorism is not a public health threat relative to cancer. Read More
November 14, 2007 | In Inspiration & Wisdom
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Within the year, Church says, people will have affordable access to their genetic information. Read More
November 14, 2007 | In Future
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Much of what is natural is painful, and a lot of what is synthetic is not well thought out. Read More
November 14, 2007 | In World
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Extremes make for good press. Read More
November 14, 2007 | In Belief
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Church tries to avoid wasting any more of the world's 6 billion minds. Read More
November 14, 2007 | In Inspiration & Wisdom
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"Even a blind person knows the shape of the parts of a car," George Church says. "We didn’t know the shape of anything that we are made out of." Read More
November 14, 2007 | In Health & Medicine, Science & Tech
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It all started with dragonfly larvae in his backyard. Read More
November 14, 2007 | In History
George Church is a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and a professor of health sciences and technology at Harvard and MIT. In 1984, Church, along with Walter Gilbert, developed the first direct genomic sequencing method and helped initiate the Human Genome Project. Church is responsible for inventing the concepts of molecular multiplexing and tags, homologous recombination methods, and DNA array synthesizers. Church initiated the Personal Genome Project in 2005 as well as research into synthetic biology. He is director of the U.S. Department of Energy Center on Bioenergy at Harvard and MIT and director of the National Institutes of Health Center of Excellence in Genomic Science at Harvard, MIT and Washington University. He is a senior editor for Nature EMBO Molecular Systems Biology.
