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" Carole Lartigue led the effort to actually transplant a bacterial chromosome from one bacteria to another. "
Craig Venter
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" If I could change the science system, my prescription for changing the whole thing would be organising it around big goals and building teams to do it. "
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" I was a horrible student. I really hated school. "
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" The rich agricultural nations are the ones that can adapt to the new biotechnologies. "
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" In a biological system, the software builds its own hardware, but design is critical, and if you start with digital information, it has to be really accurate. "
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" Creating life at the speed of light is part of a new industrial revolution. Manufacturing will shift from centralised factories to a distributed, domestic manufacturing future, thanks to the rise of 3D printer technology. "
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" I think I've achieved some good things; doing the first genome in history - my team on that was phenomenal and all the things they pulled together; writing the first genome with a synthetic cell; my teams at the Venter Institute, Human Longevity, and before that Celera. "
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" Preventative medicine has to be the direction we go in. For example, if colon cancer is detected early - because a person knew he had a genetic risk and was having frequent exams - the surgery is relatively inexpensive and average survival is far greater than 10 years. "
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" A lot of people spend their last decade of their lives in pain and misery combating disease. "
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" Society and medicine treat us all as members of populations, whereas as individuals we are all unique, and population statistics do not apply. "
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" Nobel prizes are very special prizes, and it would be great to get one. "
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" When I started my Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego, I was told that it would be difficult to make a new discovery in biology because it was all known. It all seems so absurd now. "
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" Genome design is going to be a key part of the future. That's why we need fast, cheap, accurate DNA synthesis, so you can make a lot of iterations of something and test them. "
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" Energy is probably the most pressing demand on our planet. "
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" You'd need a very specialized electron microscope to get down to the level to actually see a single strand of DNA. "
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" It takes 10 kilograms of grain to produce one kilogram of beef, 15 liters of water to get one kilogram of beef, and those cows produce a lot of methane. Why not get rid of the cows? "
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" Is my science of a level consistent with other people who have gotten the Nobel? Yes. "
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" We can create new food substances. "
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" I don't see any absolute biological limit on human age. "
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" When most people talk about biofuels, they talk about using oils or grease from plants. "
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" We can do genetics. We can do experiments on fruit flies. We can do experiments on yeast. It's not so easy to do experiments on humans. So, in fact, it helps us, to interpret our own genetic code, to have the genetic code of the other species. "
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" How we understand our own selves and how we work with our DNA software has implications that will affect everything from vaccine development to new approaches to antibiotics, new sources of food, new sources of chemicals, even potentially new sources of energy. "
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" I see, in the future, bioengineered almost everything you can imagine that we use. "
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" Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective. "
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" As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design. "
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" Race has no genetic or scientific basis. "
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" I've had a very unusual background in science - not the usual route of planning on being a scientist from age 3. I think my story shows that success is more about personal motivation and determination than it is about where you were born or what your economic status was. "
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" We know virtually all of the genes known to mammals. We do not know all of the combinations. "
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