Biologist at Harvard University. Mr Church has tweaked E. coli genomes to make them resistant to viral infection and is pursuing similar work with pigs. He is the co-founder of eGenesis, a company that rears gene-edited pigs for xenotransplantation. He has estimated that synthesising an entire human chromosome may cost more than $20m.
Anybody that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organising and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.