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Companies, cities, and potentially even individuals could have a small refinery to make their own fuel.

The gene 'klotho' was named after the Greek Fate purported to spin the thread of life, because it contributes to longevity.

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It takes 10 kilograms of grain to produce one kilogram of beef, 15 liters of water to get one kilogram of beef, and those cows produce a lot of methane. Why not get rid of the cows?

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

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

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In a biological system, the software builds its own hardware, but design is critical, and if you start with digital information, it has to be really accurate.

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There have been lots of stories written about all the hype over getting the genome done and the letdown of not discovering lots of cures right after.

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Show me a highly successful person in any field that has gotten there having a weak ego. You have to believe in yourself, and you have to believe in what you're doing.

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I naively thought that we could have a molecular definition for life, come up with a set of genes that would minimally define life. Nature just refuses to be so easily quantified.

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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.

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The day is not far off when we will be able to send a robotically controlled genome-sequencing unit in a probe to other planets to read the DNA sequence of any alien microbe life that may be there.

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I have an unusual type of thinking. I have no visual memory whatsoever. Everything is conceptual to me.

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I've always been fascinated with adrenaline; it's saved my life more than once, and it's caused me to need it to save my life more than once. One of the most fascinating responses in human evolution, adrenaline sharpens your brain; it sharpens your responses.

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

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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.

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

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Fred Sanger was one of the most important scientists of the 20th century.

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'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.

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Accuracy in the genetic field will be essential. Errors in testing could be disastrous.

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

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It's quite comforting to me as an individualist that we're not very close to being clones of one other.

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Energy is probably the most pressing demand on our planet.

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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.

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The photosynthesis we see with plants is not very efficient. Algaes are more efficient.

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

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Organisms in the ocean provide over 40 percent of the oxygen we breathe, and they're the major sink for capturing all the carbon dioxide we constantly release into the atmosphere.

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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.

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Every single cancer is a genetic disease. Not necessarily inherited from your parents, but it's genetic changes which cause cancer. So as we sequence the genomes of tumours and compare those to the sequence of patients, we're getting down to the fundamental basis of each individual person's cancer.

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Space X's Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars with modules where earthlings can live. My teleporting technology is the number one way those individuals will get new information, new treatments of diseases that will occur on the planet, and new food sources.

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Everybody is looking for a naturally occurring algae that is going to be a miracle cell to save the world, and after a century of looking, people still haven't found it.

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Companies, cities, and potentially even individuals could have a small refinery to make their own fuel.

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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.

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

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Life was so cheap in Vietnam. That is where my sense of urgency comes from.

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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.

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We can create new food substances.

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