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The Ukraine Lab

Mouse surgeries, microinjection, and a biohacker network spanning three countries

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01

The Ukraine Lab Email (August 30, 2018)

Bryan Bishop updated Epstein on his decentralized genetic engineering operation: "proceeding with more mouse testing at my ukraine lab (surgeries/microinjection)" — alongside an amateur in Mississippi testing human sperm modification and a garage biohacking conference.

folder_open Bishop Ukraine lab update + biohacker network

Bishop describes operational Ukraine lab, Mississippi sperm modification, biohacktheplanet conference, and bull-human sperm fusion paper. Epstein responds: "i like implant embryo, wait 9 months. great ending"

02

The $9.5 Million Designer Baby Company (August 5, 2018)

Three weeks before the Ukraine lab email, Bishop sent the formal pitch: a "use of funds" spreadsheet for a designer baby and human cloning company. Budget: $1.7M/year for up to 5 years. Goal: "the first live birth of a human designer baby, and possibly a human clone."

folder_open Designer babies use of funds spreadsheet

Bishop: "This gets us out of our self-funded garage biology phase to the first live birth of a human designer baby, and possibly a human clone, within 5 years." Epstein: "no rush."

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The Designer Babies Deck (August 28, 2018)

Bishop shared a formal presentation deck for the embryo editing venture. Epstein scheduled a meeting: "thurs?" Two months later, Bishop developed an alternative technique "more similar to cloning" with an overseas lab reporting 5% transfection efficiency.

folder_open Presentation deck + overseas lab results

Bishop shares designer-babies-deck.pdf, then reports "overseas lab has reported some mouse testis transfection results." Epstein: "great." Condition: "the problem is only if i am seen to lead."

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The CRISPR Baby Race (November 2018)

When He Jiankui announced the first CRISPR-edited babies, Bishop emailed Epstein analyzing the technical flaws — positioning his own program as a competitor.

folder_open He Jiankui CRISPR baby analysis

Bishop: "Chinese edited embryos are mosaic" — identifying mosaicism as a flaw his technique would avoid. Epstein was receiving competing embryo editing pitches alongside global headlines.