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" It's very expensive to treat chronic diseases. "
Craig Venter
Expensive
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" 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. "
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" I'm hoping that these next 20 years will show what we did 20 years ago in sequencing the first human genome, was the beginning of the health revolution that will have more positive impact in people's lives than any other health event in history. "
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" Even though people pretend that medical records are privileged information, anyone can already get their hands on them. "
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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. "
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" People equate patents with secrecy, that secrecy is what patents were designed to overcome. That's why the formula for Coca-Cola was never patented. They kept it as a trade secret, and they've outlasted patent laws by 80 years or more. "
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" People want to protect the territory that they have, and they're very threatened by change. That's not true for all of scientists, but you know, fortunately, the scientific community moves forward in a conservative fashion. "
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" I've had a very unusual background in science - not the usual route of planning on being a scientist from age 3. I think my story shows that success is more about personal motivation and determination than it is about where you were born or what your economic status was. "
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" There's a lot of what I call 'bio-babble' and hype out there from a lot of bioenergy companies. "
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" 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. "
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" We can create new food substances. "
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" San Francisco is one of my favorite cities on the planet. "
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San Francisco
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" A doctor can save maybe a few hundred lives in a lifetime. A researcher can save the whole world. "
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" Race has no genetic or scientific basis. "
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" Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment. "
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" I've made money by just trying to do world-class science. That's the goal that we're setting at Celera. If we do world-class science and create new medicine paradigms, the money will more than follow at a corporate level and at a personal level. "
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Trying
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" 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. "
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" 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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" You can't have life without the genetic code. "
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Code
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" I think I'm a survivor. I could have suffered at least 100 professional deaths. I could come up with a list of the 100 times I've come closest to death, from having pneumonia as a child to car crashes. "
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" I think I've achieved some good things; doing the first genome in history - my team on that was phenomenal and all the things they pulled together; writing the first genome with a synthetic cell; my teams at the Venter Institute, Human Longevity, and before that Celera. "
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" The mouse genome is an invaluable tool to interpret the human genome. "
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" Society and medicine treat us all as members of populations, whereas as individuals we are all unique, and population statistics do not apply. "
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" We all evolved out of the same three or four groups in Africa, as black Africans. "
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" The Janus-like nature of innovation - its responsible use and so on - was evident at the very birth of human ingenuity, when humankind first discovered how to make fire on demand. "
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Nature
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