Quotes About Biotechnology

I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized.

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.

And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.

I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born.

Already from your own cells scientists can grow skin, cartilage, noses, blood vessels, bladders and windpipes. In the future, scientists will grow more complex organs, like livers and kidneys. The phrase 'organ failure' will disappear.

Maybe one day we will be able to take a pill that keeps us young and healthy much longer. I believe in my heart that this will happen.

I think that the idea of people wanting to steal your genome remains a little bit in the world of science fiction. It's a new technology, and it's new science that people are becoming familiar with. It's critical for us to do everything we can to enable the privacy level that people want.

It is a disturbing sign of the times when the two most transformative science technologies affecting the globe—biotechnology and nanotechnology—are governed by no external ethical or legal frameworks to protect public safety and other public interests, despite the fact that both industries have benefited from heavy taxpayer-funded government support.

Nanotechnology will enable the design of nanobots: robots designed at the molecular level, measured in microns (millionths of a meter), such as "respirocytes" (mechanical red-blood cells).33 Nanobots will have myriad roles within the human body, including reversing human aging (to the extent that this task will not already have been completed through biotechnology, such as genetic engineering).

Ray Kurzweil La Singularidad está cerca Cuando los humanos transcendamos la biología

It's likely [that we're] just another ten to twelve years away from the point that the general public will hit longevity escape velocity.

We're seeing a move toward making things that either chemistry cannot make or can't make efficiently but biology does.

The moment of the print button for biology is nearing. Effectively, this could also mean that in a not-too-distant future, smart pharmacology will permit us to receive a continuous supply of antidepressants or neuroenhancers every time our dopamine level drops.

If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can pray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn.

Ah, if only the best place for storing embryonic stem cells was Yucca Flat.

I want American Dream growth - lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology.

Rest assured, the government is ready to support and enhance the competitiveness of the biotechnology industry.

US academic institutions are being bought via funding by biotechnology firms which exert a vice-like grip on the US government.

And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.

A big part of green tech will be organisms that eat waste.

The biotechnology wave is similar to the information technology wave of the 1980s and 1990s.

There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.

Cloning interferon was not something I wanted to get into.

I like to think of synthetic biology as liquid alchemy, only instead of transmuting precious metals, you're synthesizing new biological functionality inside very small channels. It's called microfluidics.