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" Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable. "
Paul Berg
Research
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Today
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" That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. "
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" But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer. "
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" Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society. "
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" Yet the effort to inform the public also encouraged responsible public discussion that succeeded in developing a consensus for the measured approach that many scientists supported. "
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" Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them were created with the same technologies. "
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" By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made. "
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" With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery. "
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" By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered in deciding to get a PhD. "
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" But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems. "
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" Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make. "
Paul Berg
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