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

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" 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. "

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" As a scientist, I clearly see the potential for harnessing the power of nature. "

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

" Most people don't realize it, because they're invisible, but microbes make up about a half of the Earth's biomass, whereas all animals only make up about one one-thousandth of all the biomass. "

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" 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. "

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" Ethanol's not an ideal fuel. "

" We all evolved out of the same three or four groups in Africa, as black Africans. "

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