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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. "
Craig Venter
Doing
You
Seeing
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" My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body. "
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Body
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" I was a horrible student. I really hated school. "
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Really
Hated
" 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. "
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Food
Work
Own
" 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. "
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Change
People
Community
" 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. "
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Science
War
Think
" The rich agricultural nations are the ones that can adapt to the new biotechnologies. "
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Adapt
New
Rich
" One of the challenges with a government health system, like in the UK, with all of this data, is that you have a government making decisions on which treatments they'll pay for and which ones they won't. That's a dangerous, dangerous, place to get into society. "
Craig Venter
Society
Health
Challenges
" 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. "
Craig Venter
Parents
You
Unique
" Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective. "
Craig Venter
Information
Everyone
Privacy
" I am absolutely certain that life can exist in outer space, move around, find a new aqueous environment. "
Craig Venter
Find
Environment
Space
" The problem with existing biology is you change only one or two genes at a time. "
Craig Venter
Change
Two
You
" 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. "
Craig Venter
Slow
People
Health
" I think I've achieved some good things; doing the first genome in history - my team on that was phenomenal and all the things they pulled together; writing the first genome with a synthetic cell; my teams at the Venter Institute, Human Longevity, and before that Celera. "
Craig Venter
Team
Good
Writing
" My early years were hardly a model of focus, discipline, and direction. No one who met me as a teenager could have imagined my going into research and making important discoveries. No one could have predicted the arc of my career. "
Craig Venter
Research
Focus
Discipline
" The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics. "
Craig Venter
Politics
Environmental
Environment
" Fred Sanger was one of the most important scientists of the 20th century. "
Craig Venter
The Most Important
Most
Important
" 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. "
Craig Venter
Training
Learn
Deal
" It turns out synthesizing DNA is very difficult. There are tens of thousands of machines around the world that make small pieces of DNA - 30 to 50 letters in length - and it's a degenerate process, so the longer you make the piece, the more errors there are. "
Craig Venter
World
Difficult
Process
" Carole Lartigue led the effort to actually transplant a bacterial chromosome from one bacteria to another. "
Craig Venter
Bacteria
Actually
Transplant
" I willed myself through a junior college to a university and, ultimately, a Ph.D. "
Craig Venter
Through
University
Myself
" We all evolved out of the same three or four groups in Africa, as black Africans. "
Craig Venter
Three
Four
Same
" Energy is probably the most pressing demand on our planet. "
Craig Venter
Planet
Energy
Demand
" When most people talk about biofuels, they talk about using oils or grease from plants. "
Craig Venter
Talk
Most
Oils
" 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. "
Craig Venter
Clean Water
Water
Trouble
" 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. "
Craig Venter
Live
Information
Cells
" Even with seemingly simple things like eye color, you can't tell from my genetic code whether I have blue eyes or not. So it's naive to think that complex human behaviors, like risk-seeking, are driven by changes in one or two genes. "
Craig Venter
Think
Eye
Color
" We can create new food substances. "
Craig Venter
New
Create
Food
" I've had a very unusual background in science - not the usual route of planning on being a scientist from age 3. I think my story shows that success is more about personal motivation and determination than it is about where you were born or what your economic status was. "
Craig Venter
Science
Age
Determination
" We know virtually all of the genes known to mammals. We do not know all of the combinations. "
Craig Venter
Know
Genes
Virtually
" Genomics are about individuals. It's about what's specific to you, not your siblings, not your parents - each of us is totally unique. We will only see that uniqueness by drilling down to the genetic code. "
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See
Will
Unique