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" Mitochondrial DNA is in higher concentration, lasts longer, and can be extracted from bones. "
Craig Venter
Concentration
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" There's not going to be any one replacement for oil: we need to have hundreds of solutions to this global issue. "
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" 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. "
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" The gene 'klotho' was named after the Greek Fate purported to spin the thread of life, because it contributes to longevity. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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Companies
" I hope I'll be remembered for my scientific contribution to understanding life and human life. "
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Understanding
" The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics. "
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Politics
Environmental
Environment
" The Anthropocentic Age - the first age in which humankind is the dominant species on the planet - cuts both ways: it is up to us to destroy or save the planet. We certainly have the ability. "
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Planet
Age
" We know virtually all of the genes known to mammals. We do not know all of the combinations. "
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Know
Genes
Virtually
" We all evolved out of the same three or four groups in Africa, as black Africans. "
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" If you have lung cancer, the most important thing you can know is your genetic code. "
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Know
Most
You
" Patents are basically rights to try and develop a commercial product. "
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Try
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Commercial
" Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code. "
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" 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. "
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Life
Light
Speed
" I have an unusual type of thinking. I have no visual memory whatsoever. Everything is conceptual to me. "
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Visual
Me
Memory
" 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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Design
Lack
Environment
" As a scientist, I clearly see the potential for harnessing the power of nature. "
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See
Power
Potential
" 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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Car
Child
Death
" I wrote an editorial piece in 'Science' about the nightly data release and how I thought it was bad for science as a field, I think a few years before Celera was formed. "
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Science
Data
Bad
" It's very expensive to treat chronic diseases. "
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Expensive
Diseases
Treat
" 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. "
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May
Decade
Even
" 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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Change
People
Community
" Sailing is a big outlet for me. "
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Big
Me
Sailing
" It appears that the human genome does indeed contain deserts, or large, gene-poor regions. "
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Large
Human
Genome
" My greatest fear is not the abuse of technology but that we will not use it at all. "
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" In a biological system, the software builds its own hardware, but design is critical, and if you start with digital information, it has to be really accurate. "
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Start
Design
" When most people talk about biofuels, they talk about using oils or grease from plants. "
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Oils
" 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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Never
People
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" People think they're making individual decisions for themselves and their family not to get vaccinated. It's not just an individual choice - you're a hazard to society. "
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You