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TECHNOLOGY A MILLION TIMES FASTER. "A bunch of technologies are developing faster than ever before. In particular, reading and writing DNA is now about a million times faster than seven or eight years ago." (George Church). " " http://lnkd.in/d5SRnBf View in LinkedIn

CHURCH BIG ON SYNBIO. "Synthetic biology, with its goal of reengineering cells as industrial machines, is the epitome of ambition. But even in a field of risk-takers, Harvard University's George Church stands out. But whether Church can pull off his most ambitious experiment—reinventing the genetic code—is another question. If he succeeds, biotechnology will have a new workhorse cell. And the planet will have a novel life form." (Note written in 2011). " " http://m.sciencemag.org/content/333/6047/1236 View in LinkedIn

FACEBOOK'S GIANT DATABASE. "Today Facebook said it's releasing software called "Presto" as a free and open source project. Presto allows people to ask questions (in geek speak called "queries") of huge databases and get the answers back immediately, not hours or days later). "We have one of the largest data warehouses in the world, storing more than 300 petabytes," allowing rapid answers. (Nov 6, 2013). " " http://lnkd.in/d7M_EJ8 View in LinkedIn

BRAIN INITIATIVE proposed developing "new technologies that will have to be developed in the course of the project, including wireless, minimally invasive methods to detect and manipulate neuronal activity, either utilizing microelectronics or synthetic biology. In one such proposed method, enzymatically produced DNA would serve as a "ticker tape record" of neuronal activity." (Key player was George Church). " " http://lnkd.in/d4Ys85G View in LinkedIn

DNA DETECTOR FOR DARK MATTER. "He has co-invented several novel uses for DNA, including detectors for dark matter -- Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), anti-cancer "nano-robots", and strategies for digital data storage that are over a million times denser than conventional disk drives. Together with polymerase, DNA can be used to sense and store variation in photons, nucleotides, or ions." (George Church)." " http://lnkd.in/d4Ys85G View in LinkedIn

CHURCH'S TEAM "is the first to tackle a genome-scale change in the genetic code. This was done in a 4.7 million basepair genome of an industrially useful microbe (E. coli) with the goal of making a safer and more productive strain; this strain uses non-proteinogenic amino acids in proteins and is metabolically and genetically isolated from other species."" " http://lnkd.in/d4Ys85G View in LinkedIn

GEORGE CHURCH'S "recent work is development of a technology for synthesizing whole genes, and potentially whole gene circuits, that is faster, more accurate, and significantly less expensive than current methods. In 1984, he developed the first direct genomic sequencing method, which resulted in the first commercial genome sequence. He helped initiate the Human Genome Project in 1984 and the Personal Genome Project in 2005."" " http://lnkd.in/dKFVRvx View in LinkedIn

GEORGE CHURCH: Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, Director of PersonalGenomes.org, (the world's only open-access information on human Genomic data). Walter Gilbert was hisHarvard PhD thesis Advisor. His research formed 12 companies including in medical genomics (Knome, Alacris, AbVitro, GoodStart, Pathogenica); in synthetic biology (LS9, Joule , Gen9, Warp Drive); as well as biosafety & biosecurity policies. He is director of the NIH Center for Excellence in Genomic Science. " " http://lnkd.in/dFQbg93 View in LinkedIn

GENOMICS AND P4 MEDICINE. "Genomics...forms the foundation of personalized medicine." A beautiful clear statement. This is an example of the unforeseen consequences of the effort that began with the Human Genome Project in 1990 and was completed in 2003. This was perhaps the greatest feat of exploration in history and its consequences are starting to cause a paradigm shift in medicine. " " http://lnkd.in/bxXerza View in LinkedIn

P4 MEDICINE IN KOREA: a perspective in 2013." " http://lnkd.in/bms5XEv View in LinkedIn