American - Scientist | October 14, 1946 -
If I could change the science system, my prescription for changing the whole thing would be organising it around big goals and building teams to do it.
Craig Venter
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One of the fundamental discoveries I made about myself - early enough to make use of it - was that I am driven to seize life and to understand it. The motor that pushes me is propelled by more than scientific curiosity.
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When you think of all the things that are made from oil or in the chemical industry, if in the future we could find cells to replace most of those processes, the ideal way would be to do it by direct design.
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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.
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The fact that I have a risk genetically for Alzheimer's and blindness is not great news. But the reality is that any one of us will have dozens of these risks, and what we have to learn is how to deal with them.
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I suppose if there's a set of genes I have, it's detesting authority.
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The Janus-like nature of innovation - its responsible use and so on - was evident at the very birth of human ingenuity, when humankind first discovered how to make fire on demand.
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Synthetic biology can help address key challenges facing the planet and its population. Research in synthetic biology may lead to new things such as programmed cells that self-assemble at the sites of disease to repair damage.
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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.
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One of the things about genetics that has become clearer as we've done genomes - as we've worked our way through the evolutionary tree, including humans - is that we're probably much more genetic animals than we want to confess we are.
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The future of society is 100% dependent on scientific advances.
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You'd need a very specialized electron microscope to get down to the level to actually see a single strand of DNA.
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