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

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" I think I'm a survivor. I could have suffered at least 100 professional deaths. I could come up with a list of the 100 times I've come closest to death, from having pneumonia as a child to car crashes. "

" The leading edge of the best science in the world is being driven by private money, and investment money because of the scarcity of government money to do this. It's not only by far the best and most advanced science, we're driving the equation at Human Longevity that everyone else is beginning to follow as well. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" It turns out synthesizing DNA is very difficult. There are tens of thousands of machines around the world that make small pieces of DNA - 30 to 50 letters in length - and it's a degenerate process, so the longer you make the piece, the more errors there are. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The pace of digitizing life has been increasing exponentially. "

" We find all kinds of species that have taken up a second chromosome or a third one from somewhere, adding thousands of new traits in a second to that species. So, people who think of evolution as just one gene changing at a time have missed much of biology. "

" People think genes are an absolute cause of traits. But the notion that the genome is the blueprint for humanity is a very bad metaphor. If you think we're hard-wired and deterministic, there should indeed be a lot more genes. "

" 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. "

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

" Science should be the most fun job on the planet. You get to ask questions about the world around you and go out and seek the answers. Not to have fun doing that is crazy. "

" I spent 10 years trying to find one gene. "

" Sailing is a big outlet for me. "

" Energy is probably the most pressing demand on our planet. "

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

" Our genomes are evolving and changing every single day. "

" 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. "

" The fact that I have a risk genetically for Alzheimer's and blindness is not great news. But the reality is that any one of us will have dozens of these risks, and what we have to learn is how to deal with them. "

" The interpretation of medicine today is 'do your clinical values fall within a normal range?' Everything in the globe right now is in the law of averages, which mean absolutely nothing to individuals. "

" There are still so many questions to answer about the workings of the human body and, most mysterious of all, it is influenced by our state of mind. "

" My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body. "

" Life is a DNA software system. "

" I was a horrible student. I really hated school. "

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

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