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" 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. "

Craig Venter

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Sailing is a big outlet for me. "

Craig Venter

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" I think future engineered species could be the source of food, hopefully a source of energy, environmental remediation and perhaps replacing the petrochemical industry. "

" Transposons are just small pieces of DNA that randomly insert in the genetic code. And if they insert in the middle of the gene, they disrupt its function. "

" When you think of all the things that are made from oil or in the chemical industry, if in the future we could find cells to replace most of those processes, the ideal way would be to do it by direct design. "

" The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics. "

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

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

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

Craig Venter

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" Show me a highly successful person in any field that has gotten there having a weak ego. You have to believe in yourself, and you have to believe in what you're doing. "

Craig Venter

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Genomics are about individuals. It's about what's specific to you, not your siblings, not your parents - each of us is totally unique. We will only see that uniqueness by drilling down to the genetic code. "

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

Craig Venter

Plants

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

" Now that we can read and write the genetic code, put it in digital form and translate it back into synthesized life, it will be possible to speed up biological evolution to the pace of social evolution. "

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