What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That's what makes it both powerful and exciting.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
With all the technology we're inventing and what they're coming up with scientifically, people are having longer lifetimes. It's scary, but in the same sense it's also very exciting.
It's such a long mission and we get to spend so much time in space... we're doing such exciting research. And I don't want to overemphasize the life science research, but as a physician the life science research that we're doing is extremely exciting.
I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area.
I do not think that there is a reputable scientist on this planet who would advocate using this technology to generate a human child as was just announced.
I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.
Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading. But once we get past that - once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with - when we start thinking about the future, there's an opportunity to create some new life-forms.
I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.
Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether.
Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media.
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