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" 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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" 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. "

Craig Venter

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" There are enzymes called restriction enzymes that actually digest DNA. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We can do genetics. We can do experiments on fruit flies. We can do experiments on yeast. It's not so easy to do experiments on humans. So, in fact, it helps us, to interpret our own genetic code, to have the genetic code of the other species. "

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

" I have a blend of klotho gene variants that have been linked with a lower risk for coronary artery disease and stroke and an advantage in longevity. "

" Nobel prizes are very special prizes, and it would be great to get one. "

" The pace of digitizing life has been increasing exponentially. "

" Preventative medicine has to be the direction we go in. For example, if colon cancer is detected early - because a person knew he had a genetic risk and was having frequent exams - the surgery is relatively inexpensive and average survival is far greater than 10 years. "

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

" Once we all have our genomes, some of these extremely rare diseases are going to be totally predictable. "

" My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body. "

" Even with seemingly simple things like eye color, you can't tell from my genetic code whether I have blue eyes or not. So it's naive to think that complex human behaviors, like risk-seeking, are driven by changes in one or two genes. "

" One of the things about genetics that has become clearer as we've done genomes - as we've worked our way through the evolutionary tree, including humans - is that we're probably much more genetic animals than we want to confess we are. "

" The trouble is the field of science, medicine, universities, biotech companies - you name it - have been so splintered, layers, sub-divided, hacked that people can spend their entire career studying one tiny little cog of life. "

" Genes can't possibly explain all of what makes us what we are. "

" Society and medicine treat us all as members of populations, whereas as individuals we are all unique, and population statistics do not apply. "

Craig Venter

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" It turns out synthesizing DNA is very difficult. There are tens of thousands of machines around the world that make small pieces of DNA - 30 to 50 letters in length - and it's a degenerate process, so the longer you make the piece, the more errors there are. "

" San Francisco is one of my favorite cities on the planet. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The future of society is 100% dependent on scientific advances. "

" Every single cancer is a genetic disease. Not necessarily inherited from your parents, but it's genetic changes which cause cancer. So as we sequence the genomes of tumours and compare those to the sequence of patients, we're getting down to the fundamental basis of each individual person's cancer. "

" The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics. "

" 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

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