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A billion years of evolution in a single afternoon — George Church

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The man behind the last few decades of biotech breakthroughs

Playback speed × Share post Share post at current time Share from 0:00 0:00 / Transcript 61 6 7 A billion years of evolution in a single afternoon — George Church The man behind the last few decades of biotech breakthroughs Dwarkesh Patel Jun 26, 2025 61 6 7 Share Transcript George Church is the godfather of modern synthetic biology and has been involved with basically every major biotech breakthrough in the last few decades. Professor Church thinks that these improvements (e.g., orders of magnitude decrease in sequencing & synthesis costs, precise gene editing tools like CRISPR, AlphaFold-typ

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