In February 2014, a doctor at Mass General named Joseph Thakuria sends Jeffrey Epstein a proposal to sequence his genome, edit his stem cells using CRISPR for longevity, and run something called the Venus Project - a facial genetics study with 200 participants. The invoice totals $193,400. Epstein sends a saliva sample and a $2,000 check the same day. Six years after his conviction, Harvard geneticist George Church made the introduction.

This episode follows Epstein into healthcare and genetics - from concierge CRISPR editing to his plan to "seed the human race" by impregnating 20 women at Zorro Ranch in New Mexico, from his $100,000 donation to a transhumanist organization through a shell company to George Church's "nerd tunnel vision," from Mount Sinai cancer research funded by a physician who dated Epstein for 11 years and testified as a defense witness at the Maxwell trial, to the Edge Foundation network that gave a convicted sex offender access to Nobel laureates.

Sources for this episode are available at: https://epsteinfiles.fm/?episode=ep72

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