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" We can now diagnose diseases that haven't even manifested in the patient, and may not until the fifth decade of life - if at all. "

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" Is my science of a level consistent with other people who have gotten the Nobel? Yes. "

" 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. "

" Agriculture as we know it needs to disappear. We can design better and healthier proteins than we get from nature. "

" I am absolutely certain that life can exist in outer space, move around, find a new aqueous environment. "

" We find all kinds of species that have taken up a second chromosome or a third one from somewhere, adding thousands of new traits in a second to that species. So, people who think of evolution as just one gene changing at a time have missed much of biology. "

" I think future engineered species could be the source of food, hopefully a source of energy, environmental remediation and perhaps replacing the petrochemical industry. "

" One important part of scientific training is that scientists learn the boundaries, the safety issues, how to properly deal with and dispose of chemicals and reagents. "

" Right now, oil is being isolated around the globe, and there is a major effort in shipping, trucking and otherwise transporting that oil around to a very finite number of refineries. Biology allows us to make these same fuels in a much more distributed fashion. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Cells will die in minutes to days if they lack their genetic information system. They will not evolve, they will not replicate, and they will not live. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" The same oil that gets burned as fuel is also the entire basis for the petrochemical industries, so our clothing, our plastics and our pharmaceuticals all come from oil and its derivatives. "

" If you have lung cancer, the most important thing you can know is your genetic code. "

" Creating life at the speed of light is part of a new industrial revolution. Manufacturing will shift from centralised factories to a distributed, domestic manufacturing future, thanks to the rise of 3D printer technology. "

" You'd need a very specialized electron microscope to get down to the level to actually see a single strand of DNA. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm hoping that these next 20 years will show what we did 20 years ago in sequencing the first human genome, was the beginning of the health revolution that will have more positive impact in people's lives than any other health event in history. "

" You can imagine: 99 percent of your experiments fail for one reason or another. "

" 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. "

" Your age is your No. 1 risk factor for almost every disease, but it's not a disease itself. "

" The Vietnam War totally turned my life around. Some people's lives were eliminated or destroyed by the experience. I was one of the fortunate few who came out better off. "

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