Biologist at Harvard University. Mr Church has tweaked E. coli genomes to make them resistant to viral infection and is pursuing similar work with pigs. He is the co-founder of eGenesis, a company that rears gene-edited pigs for xenotransplantation. He has estimated that synthesising an entire human chromosome may cost more than $20m.
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