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" 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. "

Craig Venter

Research

Challenges

New Things

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" There have been lots of stories written about all the hype over getting the genome done and the letdown of not discovering lots of cures right after. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If I could change the science system, my prescription for changing the whole thing would be organising it around big goals and building teams to do it. "

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

" Accuracy in the genetic field will be essential. Errors in testing could be disastrous. "

" You'd need a very specialized electron microscope to get down to the level to actually see a single strand of DNA. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There's not going to be any one replacement for oil: we need to have hundreds of solutions to this global issue. "

" It's very expensive to treat chronic diseases. "

" Life is a DNA software system. "

" 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. "

" Companies, cities, and potentially even individuals could have a small refinery to make their own fuel. "

" People think that Celera's trying to patent the whole human genome because it's been used as - I guess people in Washington learn how to do political attacks, and so it gets used as a political weapon, not as a factual one. "

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

" 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. "

" I think from my experience in war and life and science, it all has made me believe that we have one life on this planet. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I was a horrible student. I really hated school. "

" Each part of our genome is unique. We would not be alive if there was not a single mathematical solution for our chromosomes. We would just be scrambled goo. "

" 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. "

Craig Venter

Age

Human

" That's the nice thing about the field of science - the test of time sorts out the truth. "

" Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective. "

" The rich agricultural nations are the ones that can adapt to the new biotechnologies. "