GOOGLE-X IS THE SKUNK WORKS FOR THE IMPROBABLE IDEA, and has earned a reputation for delivering ideas like driverless cars and Google Glass. The difference from many Skunk Works is that it is very well financed. Except for eccentrics like J Craig Venter, most funded biological science projects tend to be orderly, logical and, for the most part, within the box thinking. Imagine a well funded Google-X for the life sciences, and what remarkable wild possibilities could emerge. Live in hope!
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