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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Genome design is going to be a key part of the future. That's why we need fast, cheap, accurate DNA synthesis, so you can make a lot of iterations of something and test them.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've gotten some pretty nice awards. I'm having trouble finding places to put them all.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people don't realize it, because they're invisible, but microbes make up about a half of the Earth's biomass, whereas all animals only make up about one one-thousandth of all the biomass.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It turns out synthesizing DNA is very difficult. There are tens of thousands of machines around the world that make small pieces of DNA - 30 to 50 letters in length - and it's a degenerate process, so the longer you make the piece, the more errors there are.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am absolutely certain that life can exist in outer space, move around, find a new aqueous environment.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We find all kinds of species that have taken up a second chromosome or a third one from somewhere, adding thousands of new traits in a second to that species. So, people who think of evolution as just one gene changing at a time have missed much of biology.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is a DNA software system.
- Entire Career
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trouble is the field of science, medicine, universities, biotech companies - you name it - have been so splintered, layers, sub-divided, hacked that people can spend their entire career studying one tiny little cog of life.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Maybe
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- Nov 07, 2020
A doctor can save maybe a few hundred lives in a lifetime. A researcher can save the whole world.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the fundamental discoveries I made about myself - early enough to make use of it - was that I am driven to seize life and to understand it. The motor that pushes me is propelled by more than scientific curiosity.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you think of all the things that are made from oil or in the chemical industry, if in the future we could find cells to replace most of those processes, the ideal way would be to do it by direct design.
- Contemplated
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020