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I naively thought that we could have a molecular definition for life, come up with a set of genes that would minimally define life. Nature just refuses to be so easily quantified.

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.

Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment.

Life is a DNA software system.

I have this idea of trying to catalog all the genes on the planet.

I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me.

Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.

I think being a dragon would be pretty awesome... you get to fly.

Now, an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but, in fact, the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person.

I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.