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The mouse genome is an invaluable tool to interpret the human genome.

There's a constant debate over nature or nurture - they're inseparable.

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.

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Even though people pretend that medical records are privileged information, anyone can already get their hands on them.

From Craig Venter

Accuracy in the genetic field will be essential. Errors in testing could be disastrous.

From Craig Venter

Carole Lartigue led the effort to actually transplant a bacterial chromosome from one bacteria to another.

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Early on, when you're working in a new area of science, you have to think about all the pitfalls and things that could lead you to believe that you had done something when you hadn't, and, even worse, leading others to believe it.

From Craig Venter

Mathematicians have been hiding and writing messages in the genetic code for a long time, but it's clear they were mathematicians and not biologists because, if you write long messages with the code that the mathematicians developed, it would more than likely lead to new proteins being synthesized with unknown functions.

From Craig Venter

There are enzymes called restriction enzymes that actually digest DNA.

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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.

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