Quotes About Biotechnology

The only reason no one ever did it with humans is because it seemed ethically dodgy, as well as completely unnecessary given the willingness of men to impregnate women every chance they got.

The rich agricultural nations are the ones that can adapt to the new biotechnologies.

I think the future of life lies in the hands of the biochemists, when there won't be any cures, but rather preventives.

The laws are still very unclear. Cells are still taken from people without consent - a lot of people don't realize it.

There's so many ways of making product design easier, more efficient, quicker. People are now taking DNA from cows and growing leather. The implications of that, in what it has from a grain standpoint, are enormous.

It's a cause championed by the tech billionaire Peter Thiel, the TED Talk darling Aubrey de Gray, Google's billion-dollar Calico longevity lab and investment by Amazon's Jeff Bezos. The National Academy of Medicine, an independent group, recently

Its focus is on treatments that can lengthen telomeres—the "caps" at the end of each strand of DNA. Telomeres get shorter each time a cell copies itself. As cells copy themselves throughout our lives, the telomeres eventually

That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories.

There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.

There is absolutely no doubt about it, and I may not be the one that does it, but the cloned child is coming. There is absolutely no way that it will not happen.

With a hundred and seventy-eight machines to sequence the precise order of the billions of chemicals within a molecule of DNA, B.G.I. produces at least a quarter of the world's genomic data - more than Harvard University, the National Institutes of Health, or any other scientific institution.

Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics.

I am opposed to both cloning and the destruction of human embryos and adamantly opposed to funding of embryonic stem cell research.

The European Parliament must send a clear sign that it recognises the importance of embryonic stem cell research.

The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act would expand research on embryonic stem cells by increasing the number of lines stem cells that would be eligible for federally funded research.

You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.

The Ethics of Genetic Control. "As we learn to direct mutations medically, we should do so. Not to control when we can is immoral.

Someday we may consider it unethical not to use germline editing to alleviate human suffering.

medical indicators, monitor our health conditions on our phones, and share the data with doctors and researchers. Doudna added that the pandemic had accelerated the convergence of science with other fields. "The engagement of non-scientists in our work will help achieve an incredibly interesting biotechnology revolution," she predicted. This was molecular biology's moment.

He named these "CRISPR-associated," or Cas, enzymes.

In South Korea, a scientist considered to be one of the pioneers in the field of cloning has been sentenced to two years in prison. At least, they think it's him ...

Enzymes - plainly the most important biotechnology of our era - already permeate many industrial processes. Unlike fossil fuels, they carry chemical programming which drives complex reactions, are renewable, and work at ordinary pressures and temperatures.

The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself - well, I wouldn't say impossible but it should be approached with a degree of caution.

The first point to remember is that attempts to clone mice have actually been very unsuccessful for at least a decade. Sheep have been successful. So one asks, 'Where do humans lie?' Most people think they are somewhere between the two, but at least there's a reasonable chance they might be clone-able.