English - Scientist | October 2, 1933 -
I myself have been a major beneficiary of the view that no animal will more repay treatment that is kind and fair.
John Gurdon
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The earliest example known to me of replaced body parts is exemplified by a Mayan skull dating back to 1400 BC. In this skull, false teeth made of stone had been implanted.
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I get into lab early and leave a bit early, too. So I like to have an hour or two before everybody comes in.
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I left my frogs, which I had grown, with my supervisor, who had moved to Geneva, and he and a technician grew them up. So by 1962, they were adults, and one could publish a paper to say that these animals, derived from nuclear transfer, really were absolutely normal. So it took a little time to get through.
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Once the principle is there, that cells have the same genes, my own personal belief is that we will, in the end, understand everything about how cells actually work.
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I think that I cannot immediately see the route by which we should really understand memory and the workings of the brain.
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I have this rather amazing report which, roughly speaking, says I was the worst student the biology master had ever taught.
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There's a danger of some of the best people saying, 'I don't want a career in science.'
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The work I was involved in had no obvious therapeutic benefit. It was purely of scientific interest. I hope the country will continue to support basic research even though it may have no obvious practical value.
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It is particularly pleasing to see how purely basic research, originally aimed at testing the genetic identity of different cell types in the body, has turned out to have clear human health prospects.
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I must have been born with a strong attraction toward, and possibly even an aptitude for, doing things on a small scale.
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Within six months of starting my Ph.D. work in 1956, I had already obtained feeding tadpoles derived from transplanted nuclei of embryonic cells.
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