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" When most people talk about biofuels, they talk about using oils or grease from plants. "

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" 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. "

" Early on, when you're working in a new area of science, you have to think about all the pitfalls and things that could lead you to believe that you had done something when you hadn't, and, even worse, leading others to believe it. "

" 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. "

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

" How we understand our own selves and how we work with our DNA software has implications that will affect everything from vaccine development to new approaches to antibiotics, new sources of food, new sources of chemicals, even potentially new sources of energy. "

" There is a long history of how DNA sequencing can bring certainty to people's lives. "

" Ethanol's not an ideal fuel. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" There's a lot of what I call 'bio-babble' and hype out there from a lot of bioenergy companies. "

" 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. "

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

" San Francisco is one of my favorite cities on the planet. "

" I don't see any absolute biological limit on human age. "

" In the past, geneticists have looked at so-called disease genes, but a lot of people have changes in their genes and don't get these diseases. There have to be other parts of physiology and genetics that compensate. "

" 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. "

" We can create new food substances. "

" We have trouble feeding, providing fresh, clean water, medicines, fuel for the six and a half billion. It's going to be a stretch to do it for nine. "

" Nobel prizes are very special prizes, and it would be great to get one. "

" '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. "

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

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

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

" People equate patents with secrecy, that secrecy is what patents were designed to overcome. That's why the formula for Coca-Cola was never patented. They kept it as a trade secret, and they've outlasted patent laws by 80 years or more. "

" There's not going to be any one replacement for oil: we need to have hundreds of solutions to this global issue. "

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

" My greatest fear is not the abuse of technology but that we will not use it at all. "

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