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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks to Farah Yarisal of The Brain Circle, who put me in touch with Doctor Yossi Buganim of the Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Thanks to Doctor Yossi Buganim for his instruction and his kindness.

Thanks to Tali Dowek, from the Division for Advancement and External Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, for organizing a visit to the Centre and a meeting with Professor Eran Meshorer at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences.

Thanks to Professor Stylianos Antonarakis, the Professor and Chairman of Genetic Medicine at the University of Geneva Medical School.

Thanks to Doctor Frédéric Saldmann of the Department for Functional Testing and Predictive Medicine at the Georges Pompidou European Hospital.

Thanks to Dominique Nora at the Nouvel Observateur for her help.

Thanks to Doctor André Choulika, CEO of Cellectis, for his simplicity and his availability both in Paris and New York. His book Réécrire la vie (Hugo: Doc, 2016) helped me comprehend the incomprehensible.

Thanks to Professor George Church of MIT and the Wyss Institute at Harvard Medical School, for our superhumanist conversation at his Boston laboratory.

Thanks to Doctor Laurent Alexandre for our non-transgenic lunch at Guy Savoy in the Monnaie de Paris.

Apologies to Jesse Karmazin for the no-show.

Thanks to Father Thomas Julien for his spiritual contribution.

Thanks to Olivier Nora, Juliette Joste, and François Samuelson for believing in this crazy project.

May all your deaths be revoked.