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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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" There is a long history of how DNA sequencing can bring certainty to people's lives. "

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" Intellectual property is a key aspect for economic development. "

" Sailing is a big outlet for me. It's one of the key things I've been able to do by commingling science with sailing and my love of the sea. Also, I have several motorcycles, and I like to go on motorcycle trips. "

" 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. "

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

" I hope I'll be remembered for my scientific contribution to understanding life and human life. "

" 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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" The same oil that gets burned as fuel is also the entire basis for the petrochemical industries, so our clothing, our plastics and our pharmaceuticals all come from oil and its derivatives. "

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

" If I had a weak ego, and doubts about this, the first genome would not yet have been completed with US and UK government funding. "

" We're moving from reading the genetic code to writing it. "

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

" Right now, oil is being isolated around the globe, and there is a major effort in shipping, trucking and otherwise transporting that oil around to a very finite number of refineries. Biology allows us to make these same fuels in a much more distributed fashion. "

" I am not sure our brains and our psychologies are ready for immortality. "

" We know virtually all of the genes known to mammals. We do not know all of the combinations. "

" Race has no genetic or scientific basis. "

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

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

" In the past, geneticists have looked at so-called disease genes, but a lot of people have changes in their genes and don't get these diseases. There have to be other parts of physiology and genetics that compensate. "

" 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. "

" 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. "