{"id":95,"date":"2021-09-02T16:12:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T16:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/colossal\/?p=95"},"modified":"2023-10-18T23:50:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T23:50:04","slug":"george-church-the-future-without-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/george-church-the-future-without-limit\/","title":{"rendered":"George Church: The Future Without Limit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the future, George Church believes, almost everything will be better because of genetics. If you have a medical problem, your doctor will be able to customize a treatment based on your specific DNA pattern. When you fill up your car, you won&#8217;t be draining the world&#8217;s dwindling supply of crude oil, because the fuel will come from microbes that have been genetically altered to produce biofuel. When you visit the zoo, you&#8217;ll be able to take your children to the woolly mammoth or passenger pigeon exhibits, because these animals will no longer be extinct. You&#8217;ll be able to do these things, that is, if the future turns out the way Church envisions it\u2014and he&#8217;s doing everything he can to see that it does.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arep.med.harvard.edu\/gmc\/pers.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">George McDonald Church<\/a>\u00a0is a big man, six feet five inches tall, with a full beard and a deep, reassuring voice. At his lab at Harvard Medical School in Boston, the 59-year-old molecular engineer supervises a team of 90 or so graduate students, postdocs, visiting scientists, and staff as they undertake cutting-edge science. They&#8217;re manipulating DNA, RNA, and proteins\u2014the basic tools of the genetics revolution\u2014to accomplish futuristic tasks such as developing new medical therapies, creating biofuel technologies, and laying the groundwork for de-extinction.<\/p>\n<p>To Read More, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/article\/140602-george-church-innovation-biology-science-genetics-de-extinction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Click Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the future, George Church believes, almost everything will be better because of genetics. If you have a medical problem, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,5,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-george-church","category-news","category-science-technology-page"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}