American - Scientist | October 14, 1946 -
It's very expensive to treat chronic diseases.
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When most people talk about biofuels, they talk about using oils or grease from plants.
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That's the nice thing about the field of science - the test of time sorts out the truth.
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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.
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My complaint is that there are more books and news articles than there are primary scientific papers. I am probably the biggest critic of the hypesters, because it's dangerous when fields get overhyped.
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The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.
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I've gotten some pretty nice awards. I'm having trouble finding places to put them all.
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Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.
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Most people don't realize it, because they're invisible, but microbes make up about a half of the Earth's biomass, whereas all animals only make up about one one-thousandth of all the biomass.
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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.
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We find all kinds of species that have taken up a second chromosome or a third one from somewhere, adding thousands of new traits in a second to that species. So, people who think of evolution as just one gene changing at a time have missed much of biology.
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The trouble is the field of science, medicine, universities, biotech companies - you name it - have been so splintered, layers, sub-divided, hacked that people can spend their entire career studying one tiny little cog of life.
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