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It's very expensive to treat chronic diseases.

I hope I'll be remembered for my scientific contribution to understanding life and human life.

I have a blend of klotho gene variants that have been linked with a lower risk for coronary artery disease and stroke and an advantage in longevity.

Once we all have our genomes, some of these extremely rare diseases are going to be totally predictable.

I've gotten some pretty nice awards. I'm having trouble finding places to put them all.

We can create new ways to create clean water.

Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.

As a scientist, I clearly see the potential for harnessing the power of nature.

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

Ethanol's not an ideal fuel.

You'd need a very specialized electron microscope to get down to the level to actually see a single strand of DNA.

We're a country of laws and rules, and the Supreme Court has ruled that life forms are patentable entities.

My greatest fear is not the abuse of technology but that we will not use it at all.

You can imagine: 99 percent of your experiments fail for one reason or another.

I spent 10 years trying to find one gene.

I think from my experience in war and life and science, it all has made me believe that we have one life on this planet.

It appears that the human genome does indeed contain deserts, or large, gene-poor regions.

Fred Sanger was one of the most important scientists of the 20th century.

The chemistry from compounds in the environment is orders of magnitude more complex than our best chemists can produce.

We need 10,000 genomes, not 100, to start to understand the link between genetics, disease and wellness.

You cannot look at a person's genes and say with any accuracy whether they are from one racial group or another.

I am confident that life once thrived on Mars and may well still exist there today.

Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment.

That's the nice thing about the field of science - the test of time sorts out the truth.

The problem with existing biology is you change only one or two genes at a time.

You can't have life without the genetic code.

A doctor can save maybe a few hundred lives in a lifetime. A researcher can save the whole world.

Mitochondrial DNA is in higher concentration, lasts longer, and can be extracted from bones.

Sailing is a big outlet for me.

A lot of people spend their last decade of their lives in pain and misery combating disease.

We have trouble feeding, providing fresh, clean water, medicines, fuel for the six and a half billion. It's going to be a stretch to do it for nine.

There is a long history of how DNA sequencing can bring certainty to people's lives.

Is my science of a level consistent with other people who have gotten the Nobel? Yes.

The rich agricultural nations are the ones that can adapt to the new biotechnologies.

I have this idea of trying to catalog all the genes on the planet.

The gene 'klotho' was named after the Greek Fate purported to spin the thread of life, because it contributes to longevity.

Your age is your No. 1 risk factor for almost every disease, but it's not a disease itself.

Most drugs work on only about a third of the population, they do no damage to another third, and the final third can have negative consequences.

If you have lung cancer, the most important thing you can know is your genetic code.

As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design.

Life is a DNA software system.

There's a constant debate over nature or nurture - they're inseparable.

The pace of digitizing life has been increasing exponentially.

The mouse genome is an invaluable tool to interpret the human genome.

We are going from reading our genetic code to the ability to write it. That gives us the hypothetical ability to do things never contemplated before.

Agriculture as we know it needs to disappear. We can design better and healthier proteins than we get from nature.

There's not going to be any one replacement for oil: we need to have hundreds of solutions to this global issue.

Energy is probably the most pressing demand on our planet.

We know virtually all of the genes known to mammals. We do not know all of the combinations.

My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body.

It's quite comforting to me as an individualist that we're not very close to being clones of one other.

Our genomes are evolving and changing every single day.

The only 'afterlife' is what other people remember of you.

Accuracy in the genetic field will be essential. Errors in testing could be disastrous.

I willed myself through a junior college to a university and, ultimately, a Ph.D.

We all evolved out of the same three or four groups in Africa, as black Africans.

Carole Lartigue led the effort to actually transplant a bacterial chromosome from one bacteria to another.

Intellectual property is a key aspect for economic development.

Human lifespan used to be 30 years, 25 years. But there's no basic, fundamental reason why it has to be short.

I don't know if the optimists
or the pessimists are right.
But, the optimists are going to get something done.

I am not sure our brains and our psychologies are ready for immortality.

There have been lots of stories written about all the hype over getting the genome done and the letdown of not discovering lots of cures right after.

Even though people pretend that medical records are privileged information, anyone can already get their hands on them.

I suppose if there's a set of genes I have, it's detesting authority.

Race has no genetic or scientific basis.

We're moving from reading the genetic code to writing it.

I have the modest goals of replacing the whole petrochemical industry.

There are enzymes called restriction enzymes that actually digest DNA.

Nobel prizes are very special prizes, and it would be great to get one.

Life was so cheap in Vietnam. That is where my sense of urgency comes from.

You can't just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life.

The photosynthesis we see with plants is not very efficient. Algaes are more efficient.

Any virus that's been sequenced today - that genome can be made.

There's a lot of what I call 'bio-babble' and hype out there from a lot of bioenergy companies.

I was a horrible student. I really hated school.

The future of society is 100% dependent on scientific advances.

I see, in the future, bioengineered almost everything you can imagine that we use.

We have 100 genes or so, which we know we can't knock out without killing the cell, that are of unknown structure.

Society and medicine treat us all as members of populations, whereas as individuals we are all unique, and population statistics do not apply.

Perfect pitch is genetic. It's 100% genetic.

Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.

Patents are basically rights to try and develop a commercial product.

Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code.

We can now diagnose diseases that haven't even manifested in the patient, and may not until the fifth decade of life - if at all.

I am absolutely certain that life can exist in outer space, move around, find a new aqueous environment.

If I had a weak ego, and doubts about this, the first genome would not yet have been completed with US and UK government funding.

Companies, cities, and potentially even individuals could have a small refinery to make their own fuel.

We have learned nothing from the genome.

I have an unusual type of thinking. I have no visual memory whatsoever. Everything is conceptual to me.

We can create new food substances.

People are comprised of sets of DNA from each parent. If you looked at just the DNA from your father, it wouldn't tell you who you really are.

I don't see any absolute biological limit on human age.

Genes can't possibly explain all of what makes us what we are.

When most people talk about biofuels, they talk about using oils or grease from plants.