RE:

Thanks for understanding. Probably rather than relaxing, I'll be spending my "spare time" in December raising funds for PersonalGenomes.org (which includes adult human tissue cloning & genomic engineering)

-- George

From: Jeffrey Epstein [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 9:59 AM

I fully understand, why don't you come and i won't mention it. i just find it intellectually amusing, marving amd martin will also be disappointed

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 9:56 AM, George Church wrote:

Yes. I'm working toward this goal fairly rapidly, but trying to do so in a way that minimizes risk to the field. James Wilson (who happened to be my physician, in the 1990s) set back the field of gene therapy by a decade by rushing.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=gene-therapy-an-interview

My lab is good at conceiving of radically new technologies as well as improving throughput and quality by factors of ten. Given a couple of years and decent funding, this would become much more reasonable. I'm too busy doing it well to get distracted by trying to do it badly.

-- George