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" Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code. "

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" I was a surf bum wannabe. I left home at age 17 and moved to Southern California to try to take up surfing as a vocation, but this was in 1964, and there was this nasty little thing called the Vietnam War. As a result, I got drafted. "

" 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. "

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

" Knowing what your parents have gives you hints of things, but your genome is a totally unique combination of and interchange of DNA from your parents. There is no one else like you genetically. "

" Now that we can read and write the genetic code, put it in digital form and translate it back into synthesized life, it will be possible to speed up biological evolution to the pace of social evolution. "

" We know virtually all of the genes known to mammals. We do not know all of the combinations. "

" Mathematicians have been hiding and writing messages in the genetic code for a long time, but it's clear they were mathematicians and not biologists because, if you write long messages with the code that the mathematicians developed, it would more than likely lead to new proteins being synthesized with unknown functions. "

" I naively thought that we could have a molecular definition for life, come up with a set of genes that would minimally define life. Nature just refuses to be so easily quantified. "

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

" The fact that I have a risk genetically for Alzheimer's and blindness is not great news. But the reality is that any one of us will have dozens of these risks, and what we have to learn is how to deal with them. "

" A doctor can save maybe a few hundred lives in a lifetime. A researcher can save the whole world. "

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

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" The leading edge of the best science in the world is being driven by private money, and investment money because of the scarcity of government money to do this. It's not only by far the best and most advanced science, we're driving the equation at Human Longevity that everyone else is beginning to follow as well. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" When you do cross-breeding of plants, you're doing this blind experiment where you're just mixing DNA of different types of cells and just seeing what comes out of it. "

" It appears that the human genome does indeed contain deserts, or large, gene-poor regions. "

" I have this idea of trying to catalog all the genes on the planet. "

" 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. "