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" Every single cancer is a genetic disease. Not necessarily inherited from your parents, but it's genetic changes which cause cancer. So as we sequence the genomes of tumours and compare those to the sequence of patients, we're getting down to the fundamental basis of each individual person's cancer. "

Craig Venter

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" 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. "

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

" I've always been fascinated with adrenaline; it's saved my life more than once, and it's caused me to need it to save my life more than once. One of the most fascinating responses in human evolution, adrenaline sharpens your brain; it sharpens your responses. "

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

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

" For each gene in your genome, you quite often get a different version of that gene from your father and a different version from your mother. We need to study these relationships across a very large number of people. "

" My early years were hardly a model of focus, discipline, and direction. No one who met me as a teenager could have imagined my going into research and making important discoveries. No one could have predicted the arc of my career. "

" 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. "

" 'Bloomberg's, you know, for people who don't use the service, provides through the Internet - through specialized computers - information about the financial world. It's a very large data base. I think they have on the order of a billion dollars or more a year in revenue. "

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

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

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

" If there is a race, it is one to bring the benefits of genomes to human therapeutics. We all want to get there. We all want people to have much more meaningful and productive lives as they age. "

Craig Venter

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Human

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

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

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

" The trouble is the field of science, medicine, universities, biotech companies - you name it - have been so splintered, layers, sub-divided, hacked that people can spend their entire career studying one tiny little cog of life. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Space X's Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars with modules where earthlings can live. My teleporting technology is the number one way those individuals will get new information, new treatments of diseases that will occur on the planet, and new food sources. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" There are enzymes called restriction enzymes that actually digest DNA. "

" I was a surf bum wannabe. I left home at age 17 and moved to Southern California to try to take up surfing as a vocation, but this was in 1964, and there was this nasty little thing called the Vietnam War. As a result, I got drafted. "

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