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.
From John Gurdon
I get into lab early and leave a bit early, too. So I like to have an hour or two before everybody comes in.
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.
I think that I cannot immediately see the route by which we should really understand memory and the workings of the brain.
I have this rather amazing report which, roughly speaking, says I was the worst student the biology master had ever taught.
There's a danger of some of the best people saying, 'I don't want a career in science.'
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.
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.
I must have been born with a strong attraction toward, and possibly even an aptitude for, doing things on a small scale.
I remember that, at an early age, I spent many months making a three-masted sailing boat with rigging in a half-walnut shell.
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