- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll drop something for a while, a year or maybe several years, and then pick it up again. I think that's the way successful innovators work. They keep juggling ideas, keeping them in the air, in the back of their mind, to inspire them or enable new recombinations.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very often, as I wander through life, I'll get that old feeling that I've come back from the future, and I'm living in the past. And it's a really horrible feeling.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every cell in our body, whether it's a bacterial cell or a human cell, has a genome. You can extract that genome - it's kind of like a linear tape - and you can read it by a variety of methods. Similarly, like a string of letters that you can read, you can also change it. You can write, you can edit it, and then you can put it back in the cell.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can't just hoard your ideas inside the ivory tower. You have to get them out into the world.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
The World Wide Web went from zero to millions of web pages in a few years. Many revolutions look irrelevant just before they change everything swiftly.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
People think it's great to be ahead of your time, but it can actually be quite painful.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
The goal of getting your genome done is not to tell you what you will die from, but it's how to learn how to take action to prevent disease.
- Computers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always loved computers - it's something inside you.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm pathologically calm.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to keep the median age in my lab low because they will indulge me in my dreams. They don't yet think things are impossible.
- Complicated
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's this very interesting and complicated connection between our environment and our genes and the traits that come out of the environment plus genes. And there's huge potential. I mean we see amazing abilities. Marie Curie, Albert Einstein. All sorts of arts, and literature and so forth. These are not typical traits of everybody on earth.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
We might want to figure out what are the positive effects of autism - mild cases.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of faith expressed by scientists about science. It's kind of an act of faith that science is a good thing. We don't know that for sure. We may not know that millions of years from now.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clearly, we are a species that is well connected to other species. Whether or not we evolve from them, we are certainly very closely related to them. A series of mutations could change us into all kinds of intermediate species. Whether or not those intermediate species are provably in the past, they could easily be in our future.
- Action
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have the ability to completely change our environment to go... to take on... to inherit, in a certain sense, things far beyond our DNA, and that's inheritable. And we can see evolution in action as our ideas evolve and undergo a kind of Darwinian selection not at the DNA level. And we can go off into space.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you get a personal genome, you should be able to get personal cell lines, stem cell derived from your adult tissues, that allow you to bring together synthetic biology and the sequencing so that you can repair parts of your body as you age or repair things that were inherited disorders.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
We went from a world where almost nobody knew anything about computers to a world where almost all of us are computer geeks for a huge fraction of our day. And I'd like to see that happen with the digital world of biological molecules, too.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people are excited about themselves. Personal genome will deliver for inexpensively something about science to which you can relate. Just like computers are becoming something to which you can relate. It should be even easier to relate to your own biology, and I hope that will be one of the ways we get broader literacy in science.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my lab, we are constantly asking, 'What's the utility of this pure science that we're doing? Let's nudge it a little bit in a direction where people can connect to it and have some fun and/or help some very serious problems they have.'
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Terrorism is not a public health threat, relative to cancer and heart disease and malaria and so forth.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
It sounds a little bit too arrogant, but I think I certainly have a working model for how I conduct my life, and it may or may not be a correct worldview.
- Imagine
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a love affair with the idea of the 'natural,' even though we, as a species, are about as unnatural as you can imagine.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will make the argument that we are poorly adapted to our current environment. I mean, we did not evolve to sit all day and be exposed to giant amounts of really tasty food.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
We will have to make a decision, as we go into new environments outside of earth, whether we want to drag along with us all our pathogens. We can, or we can't - it's up to us - but I consider that part of genome engineering is how we interact with the huge part of our genome which is our microbiome.
- Price
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I really wanted was for everybody to have their genome and, ideally, everybody to share their genome, and for that, we needed to bring the price way down.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reversal of ageing is high on my list of things to do, and not just because I'm getting old.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we can come up with a way of backing up my brain into another that I have in my back-pack, we'll do it. People talk themselves out of things very easily. Things that they think are a million years away, or never, are actually four years away.
- Copies
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- Nov 07, 2020
The goal of reanimation research is not to make perfect living copies of extinct organisms, nor is it meant to be a one-off stunt in a laboratory or zoo. Reanimation is about leveraging the best of ancient and synthetic DNA.
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020
A few dozen changes to the genome of a modern elephant - to give it subcutaneous fat, woolly hair and sebaceous glands - might suffice to create a variation that is functionally similar to the mammoth. Returning this keystone species to the tundras could stave off some effects of warming.
- Diversity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Aside from bringing back extinct species, reanimation could help living ones by restoring lost genetic diversity. The Tasmanian devil (aka Sarcophilus harrisii) is so inbred at this point that most species members can exchange tumor cells without rejection.
- Critically
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- Nov 07, 2020
Preventing ongoing extinction of elephants, rhinoceroses, and other threatened species is critically important. By all means, we must set priorities for allocating finite conservation resources.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020