Episode
A billion years of evolution in a single afternoon — George Church
Dwarkesh Podcast · Jun 26, 2025 · 1 h 34 min
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-type AIs, & the ability to conduct massively parallel multiplex experiments)…