Experts
George Church
Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Genomics pioneer George Church found that cutting-edge medical technology added years to his own life. Read More
George Church reveals the secrets to holistic physiology. Read More
The gap between diagnosis and treatment. Read More
Is the tide really rising? Read More
Science has very definite faith components, and most religions don’t stick to faith. Read More
Eliminating poverty would improve our species's chance for survival. Read More
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
The personal genomics revolution will fuel interest in science, Church says.
“Why would anybody want a computer?” Read More
Church remembers watching the first DNA folding. Read More
George Church, on the risks and benefits of genetic mapping. Read More
Why do Americans think they have "math block"? Read More
Terrorism is not a public health threat relative to cancer.
Within the year, Church says, people will have affordable access to their genetic information. Read More
Much of what is natural is painful, and a lot of what is synthetic is not well thought out.
Extremes make for good press. Read More
Church tries to avoid wasting any more of the world's 6 billion minds. Read More
"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
It all started with dragonfly larvae in his backyard.
About George Church
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.