DNA Podcast: Futures in Biotech with Dr. George Church Part 2
by Dr. Hsien-Hsien Lei
Posted February 11, 2008 in DNA Podcasts and Videos
More than four months after Marc Pelletier first interviewed Dr. George Church for the Futures in Biotech podcast, he’s back in Part 2: From Human Genome Project to Your Genome Project.
Well, I [Marc Pelletier] wanted to have him back to discuss two technological revolutions that are currently happening in biotech. The first is the personal genome. Why do I call it a revolution, as opposed to an evolutionary technological step? Because it changes how we make medical decisions: from being based on statistics and family histories, to decisions that are based on our true molecular anatomy, our own genome. The second revolution is the new field of synthetic biology: creating tailored organisms, not by simply adding or subtracting a single or a few genes as for GM foods, but redesigning organisms from scratch. Dr. Church has been a key player in both these revolutions and his insights are just about the best out there.

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I heard the first part of this interview on the train a couple days ago and was wondering how long it would be before the second one popped up. And here we go.
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