From: "George Church" <1

From: "George Church" <1 To: "'Jeffrey Epstein"' <[email protected]> Subject: RE: Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 12:04:40 +0000 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 & genome engineering) -- George From: Jeffrey Epstein [maitto 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, marviniz, 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-interyiew 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 EFTA00687317