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" Yet the effort to inform the public also encouraged responsible public discussion that succeeded in developing a consensus for the measured approach that many scientists supported. "
Paul Berg
Discussion
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Public
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" Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature. "
Paul Berg
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Moving
" Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them were created with the same technologies. "
Paul Berg
Technologies
Treatment
Same
" Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society. "
Paul Berg
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Science
" By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made. "
Paul Berg
Biology
Genes
Slow
" Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable. "
Paul Berg
Research
Cells
Today
" But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer. "
Paul Berg
War
Effort
Flyer
" Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of the concerns that were rampant. "
Paul Berg
Environment
Evolution
Creating
" Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make. "
Paul Berg
Looking Back
Curiosity
Education
" By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered in deciding to get a PhD. "
Paul Berg
Time
Career
Research
" With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery. "
Paul Berg
Excitement
Time
Lost