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" I have this idea of trying to catalog all the genes on the planet. "

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

" The day is not far off when we will be able to send a robotically controlled genome-sequencing unit in a probe to other planets to read the DNA sequence of any alien microbe life that may be there. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" Darwin didn't walk around the Galapagos and come up with the theory of evolution. He was exploring, collecting, making observations. It wasn't until he got back and went through the samples that he noticed the differences among them and put them in context. "

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

" We have trouble feeding, providing fresh, clean water, medicines, fuel for the six and a half billion. It's going to be a stretch to do it for nine. "

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

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

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

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" Your age is your No. 1 risk factor for almost every disease, but it's not a disease itself. "

" I thought we'd just sequence the genome once and that would be sufficient for most things in people's lifetimes. Now we're seeing how changeable and adaptable it is, which is why we're surviving and evolving as a species. "

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" Most people don't realize it, because they're invisible, but microbes make up about a half of the Earth's biomass, whereas all animals only make up about one one-thousandth of all the biomass. "

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" 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. "

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