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When most people talk about biofuels, they talk about using oils or grease from plants.
Accuracy in the genetic field will be essential. Errors in testing could be disastrous.
That's the nice thing about the field of science - the test of time sorts out the truth.
It appears that the human genome does indeed contain deserts, or large, gene-poor regions.
Your age is your No. 1 risk factor for almost every disease, but it's not a disease itself.
Mitochondrial DNA is in higher concentration, lasts longer, and can be extracted from bones.
A lot of people spend their last decade of their lives in pain and misery combating disease.
We know virtually all of the genes known to mammals. We do not know all of the combinations.
I hope I'll be remembered for my scientific contribution to understanding life and human life.
There's a lot of what I call 'bio-babble' and hype out there from a lot of bioenergy companies.
A doctor can save maybe a few hundred lives in a lifetime. A researcher can save the whole world.
Companies, cities, and potentially even individuals could have a small refinery to make their own fuel.
I have an unusual type of thinking. I have no visual memory whatsoever. Everything is conceptual to me.
It's quite comforting to me as an individualist that we're not very close to being clones of one other.
We need 10,000 genomes, not 100, to start to understand the link between genetics, disease and wellness.
I am absolutely certain that life can exist in outer space, move around, find a new aqueous environment.
Once we all have our genomes, some of these extremely rare diseases are going to be totally predictable.
Carole Lartigue led the effort to actually transplant a bacterial chromosome from one bacteria to another.
We're a country of laws and rules, and the Supreme Court has ruled that life forms are patentable entities.
Human lifespan used to be 30 years, 25 years. But there's no basic, fundamental reason why it has to be short.
I don't know if the optimists or the pessimists are right. But, the optimists are going to get something done.
You cannot look at a person's genes and say with any accuracy whether they are from one racial group or another.
There's not going to be any one replacement for oil: we need to have hundreds of solutions to this global issue.
You'd need a very specialized electron microscope to get down to the level to actually see a single strand of DNA.
Agriculture as we know it needs to disappear. We can design better and healthier proteins than we get from nature.
We have 100 genes or so, which we know we can't knock out without killing the cell, that are of unknown structure.
Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.
As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design.
The chemistry from compounds in the environment is orders of magnitude more complex than our best chemists can produce.
Even though people pretend that medical records are privileged information, anyone can already get their hands on them.
The gene 'klotho' was named after the Greek Fate purported to spin the thread of life, because it contributes to longevity.
Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment.
Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.
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.
If I had a weak ego, and doubts about this, the first genome would not yet have been completed with US and UK government funding.
People are comprised of sets of DNA from each parent. If you looked at just the DNA from your father, it wouldn't tell you who you really are.
Society and medicine treat us all as members of populations, whereas as individuals we are all unique, and population statistics do not apply.
Most drugs work on only about a third of the population, they do no damage to another third, and the final third can have negative consequences.
There are still so many questions to answer about the workings of the human body and, most mysterious of all, it is influenced by our state of mind.
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.
I have a blend of klotho gene variants that have been linked with a lower risk for coronary artery disease and stroke and an advantage in longevity.
We are going from reading our genetic code to the ability to write it. That gives us the hypothetical ability to do things never contemplated before.
There have been lots of stories written about all the hype over getting the genome done and the letdown of not discovering lots of cures right after.
You can't just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life.
If I could change the science system, my prescription for changing the whole thing would be organising it around big goals and building teams to do it.
Cells will die in minutes to days if they lack their genetic information system. They will not evolve, they will not replicate, and they will not live.
Transposons are just small pieces of DNA that randomly insert in the genetic code. And if they insert in the middle of the gene, they disrupt its function.
Each part of our genome is unique. We would not be alive if there was not a single mathematical solution for our chromosomes. We would just be scrambled goo.
In a biological system, the software builds its own hardware, but design is critical, and if you start with digital information, it has to be really accurate.
Sometime in the future, I am a hundred percent certain scientists will sit down at a computer terminal, design what they want the organism to do, and build it.