George Church: The Future Without Limit | Innovators

George Church manipulates microbes and tinkers with DNA to fight disease, create new biofuels, and perhaps even resurrect extinct species.

George Church: The Future Without Limit | Innovators | National Geographic PHOTOGRAPH BY DEANNE FITZMAURICE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC INNOVATORS PROJECT George Church: The Future Without Limit Geneticist George Church tinkers with DNA to fight disease, create new biofuels, and perhaps even resurrect extinct species. By Peter Miller Photographs by Deanne Fitzmaurice Published June 2, 2014 • 20 min read 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

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