Craig Venter Quotes
Top 94 wise famous quotes and sayings by Craig Venter
Craig Venter Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I have a blend of klotho gene variants that have been linked with a lower risk for coronary artery disease and stroke and an advantage in longevity.
Once we all have our genomes, some of these extremely rare diseases are going to be totally predictable.
Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.
You'd need a very specialized electron microscope to get down to the level to actually see a single strand of DNA.
We're a country of laws and rules, and the Supreme Court has ruled that life forms are patentable entities.
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.
The chemistry from compounds in the environment is orders of magnitude more complex than our best chemists can produce.
We need 10,000 genomes, not 100, to start to understand the link between genetics, disease and wellness.
You cannot look at a person's genes and say with any accuracy whether they are from one racial group or another.
Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment.
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.
The gene 'klotho' was named after the Greek Fate purported to spin the thread of life, because it contributes to longevity.
Most drugs work on only about a third of the population, they do no damage to another third, and the final third can have negative consequences.
As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design.
We are going from reading our genetic code to the ability to write it. That gives us the hypothetical ability to do things never contemplated before.
Agriculture as we know it needs to disappear. We can design better and healthier proteins than we get from nature.
There's not going to be any one replacement for oil: we need to have hundreds of solutions to this global issue.
It's quite comforting to me as an individualist that we're not very close to being clones of one other.
Carole Lartigue led the effort to actually transplant a bacterial chromosome from one bacteria to another.
Human lifespan used to be 30 years, 25 years. But there's no basic, fundamental reason why it has to be short.
I don't know if the optimists
or the pessimists are right.
But, the optimists are going to get something done.
or the pessimists are right.
But, the optimists are going to get something done.
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.
Even though people pretend that medical records are privileged information, anyone can already get their hands on them.
You can't just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life.
We have 100 genes or so, which we know we can't knock out without killing the cell, that are of unknown structure.
Society and medicine treat us all as members of populations, whereas as individuals we are all unique, and population statistics do not apply.
Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.
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.
I am absolutely certain that life can exist in outer space, move around, find a new aqueous environment.
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.
Companies, cities, and potentially even individuals could have a small refinery to make their own fuel.
I have an unusual type of thinking. I have no visual memory whatsoever. Everything is conceptual to me.