Biologist at Harvard University. He 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.
I'm personally quite happy with one stable release every two years, and am of the opinion that trying to release more will mean we'll have to rename the distro from "stable" to "wobbly".