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

" Synthetic biology can help address key challenges facing the planet and its population. Research in synthetic biology may lead to new things such as programmed cells that self-assemble at the sites of disease to repair damage. "

" We have 200 trillion cells, and the outcome of each of them is almost 100 percent genetically determined. And that's what our experiment with the first synthetic genome proves, at least in the case of really simple bacteria. It's the interactions of all those separate genetic units that give us the physiology that we see. "

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

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

" One of the fundamental discoveries I made about myself - early enough to make use of it - was that I am driven to seize life and to understand it. The motor that pushes me is propelled by more than scientific curiosity. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Cells will die in minutes to days if they lack their genetic information system. They will not evolve, they will not replicate, and they will not live. "

" Everybody is looking for a naturally occurring algae that is going to be a miracle cell to save the world, and after a century of looking, people still haven't found it. "

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

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

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

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

" We can create new ways to create clean water. "

" One of the challenges with a government health system, like in the UK, with all of this data, is that you have a government making decisions on which treatments they'll pay for and which ones they won't. That's a dangerous, dangerous, place to get into society. "

" Organisms in the ocean provide over 40 percent of the oxygen we breathe, and they're the major sink for capturing all the carbon dioxide we constantly release into the atmosphere. "

" Part of the problem with the discovery of the so-called breast-cancer genes was that physicians wrongly told women that had the genetic changes associated with the genes that they had a 99% chance of getting breast cancer. Turns out all women that have these genetic changes don't get breast cancer. "

" Knowing what your parents have gives you hints of things, but your genome is a totally unique combination of and interchange of DNA from your parents. There is no one else like you genetically. "

" I turned 65 last year, and each year I get more and more interested in human health. For most people it happens around age 50, but I've always been a slow learner. It's critical in terms of the cost of health care. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Each part of our genome is unique. We would not be alive if there was not a single mathematical solution for our chromosomes. We would just be scrambled goo. "