Church and Neil Gershenfeld at MIT teach complementary courses ('How to Grow Almost Anything' and 'How to Make Almost Anything') attempting to merge biological and mechanical engineering, but neither can actually make or grow most things because of persistent gaps and dependencies on billion-dollar fabs for certain manufacturing

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George Church

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I teach a course called How to Grow (Almost) Anything... neither of us can make or grow almost anything

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A billion years of evolution in a single afternoon — George ChurchDwarkesh Patel
Created: 8/11/2026, 6:40:03 AM

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