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" Genome design is going to be a key part of the future. That's why we need fast, cheap, accurate DNA synthesis, so you can make a lot of iterations of something and test them. "

" Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment. "

" Part of the problem with the discovery of the so-called breast-cancer genes was that physicians wrongly told women that had the genetic changes associated with the genes that they had a 99% chance of getting breast cancer. Turns out all women that have these genetic changes don't get breast cancer. "

" I am confident that life once thrived on Mars and may well still exist there today. "

" We have 200 trillion cells, and the outcome of each of them is almost 100 percent genetically determined. And that's what our experiment with the first synthetic genome proves, at least in the case of really simple bacteria. It's the interactions of all those separate genetic units that give us the physiology that we see. "

" 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. "

" A lot of people spend their last decade of their lives in pain and misery combating disease. "

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

" The problem with existing biology is you change only one or two genes at a time. "

" The chemistry from compounds in the environment is orders of magnitude more complex than our best chemists can produce. "

" 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. "

" Since my own genome was sequenced, my software has been broadcast into space in the form of electromagnetic waves, carrying my genetic information far beyond Earth. Whether there is any creature out there capable of making sense of the instructions in my genome, well, that's another question. "

" People think genes are an absolute cause of traits. But the notion that the genome is the blueprint for humanity is a very bad metaphor. If you think we're hard-wired and deterministic, there should indeed be a lot more genes. "

" Sometime in the future, I am a hundred percent certain scientists will sit down at a computer terminal, design what they want the organism to do, and build it. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 'Bloomberg's, you know, for people who don't use the service, provides through the Internet - through specialized computers - information about the financial world. It's a very large data base. I think they have on the order of a billion dollars or more a year in revenue. "

" 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. "

" The interpretation of medicine today is 'do your clinical values fall within a normal range?' Everything in the globe right now is in the law of averages, which mean absolutely nothing to individuals. "

" 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. "

" Even though people pretend that medical records are privileged information, anyone can already get their hands on them. "

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

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

" I somewhat joke that I know an awful lot because I learn from my mistakes. I just make a lot of mistakes. It's OK to fail in science just as long as you have the successes to go with the failures. "

" Mitochondrial DNA is in higher concentration, lasts longer, and can be extracted from bones. "

" 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. "

" We have 100 genes or so, which we know we can't knock out without killing the cell, that are of unknown structure. "