I am absolutely certain that life can exist in outer space, move around, find a new aqueous environment.
From Craig Venter
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.
Nobel prizes are very special prizes, and it would be great to get one.
Life is a DNA software system.
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.
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.
A doctor can save maybe a few hundred lives in a lifetime. A researcher can save the whole world.
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.
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.
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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