The Next Best Version of Me: How to Live Forever

Researchers want to synthesize an optimized humane genome that can be stored indefinitely and grown decades from now. So I volunteered mine.

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Sep 7, 2018 · 15 min read
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By David Ewing Duncan

George Church towers over most people. He has the long, gray beard of a wizard from Middle-earth, and…

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