Author

I take the view that anything you can do to relieve suffering or improve human health will usually be widely accepted by the public - that is to say, if cloning actually turned out to be solving some problems and was useful to people, I think it would be accepted.

From John Gurdon

If you explain to a patient what can be done and what might be the downsides, let the patient choose; don't have ethicists, priests, or doctors say you may or may not have replacement cells.

From John Gurdon

As a brand new graduate student starting in October 1956, my supervisor Michail Fischberg, a lecturer in the Department of Zoology at Oxford, suggested that I should try to make somatic cell nuclear transplantation work in the South African frog Xenopus laevis.

From John Gurdon

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.

From John Gurdon

There is no doubt that I was blessed with a considerable amount of luck.

From John Gurdon

Within one year of starting work, I had found that the nucleus of an endoderm cell from an advanced tadpole was able to yield some normal development up to the nuclear transplant tadpole stage.

From John Gurdon

I wondered whether the nuclear transfer techniques could be used to introduce purified macro-molecules into an egg, and hence into embryonic cells.

From John Gurdon

For my part, I have worked all my life with eggs and embryos of frogs. Compared to other small animals, these have figured prominently in the world of literature.

From John Gurdon

Shinya Yamanaka's work has involved mice and human cells, and advances the prospect of providing new cells or body parts for patients.

From John Gurdon

I myself have been a major beneficiary of the view that no animal will more repay treatment that is kind and fair.

From John Gurdon

John Gurdon

Notable Quotes

Authors with Similar Views

Leon Kass

William Joyce

Shinya Yamanaka

Tom Allen

Mike Pence

Authors with Opposing Views

Douglas Coupland

Astrid Berges-Frisbey

Christina Ricci

Craig Venter

J. Michael Straczynski