You'd need a very specialized electron microscope to get down to the level to actually see a single strand of DNA. Craig Venter More Quotes by Craig Venter More Quotes From Craig Venter As a scientist, I clearly see the potential for harnessing the power of nature. Craig Venter potentialseenaturepower Carole Lartigue led the effort to actually transplant a bacterial chromosome from one bacteria to another. Craig Venter transplantanotherbacteriaeffort Intellectual property is a key aspect for economic development. Craig Venter keyeconomicdevelopmentintellectual 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. Craig Venter questionsmysteriousbodymind Even with seemingly simple things like eye color, you can't tell from my genetic code whether I have blue eyes or not. So it's naive to think that complex human behaviors, like risk-seeking, are driven by changes in one or two genes. Craig Venter eyesyousimpleblue We can create new ways to create clean water. Craig Venter newcreateclean-waterwater We know virtually all of the genes known to mammals. We do not know all of the combinations. Craig Venter knowmammalsgenesknown Life is a DNA software system. Craig Venter dnalife-is-asoftwarelife Since my own genome was sequenced, my software has been broadcast into space in the form of electromagnetic waves, carrying my genetic information far beyond Earth. Whether there is any creature out there capable of making sense of the instructions in my genome, well, that's another question. Craig Venter wavesmy-owninformationspace We have 200 trillion cells, and the outcome of each of them is almost 100 percent genetically determined. And that's what our experiment with the first synthetic genome proves, at least in the case of really simple bacteria. It's the interactions of all those separate genetic units that give us the physiology that we see. Craig Venter experimentusseesimple The interpretation of medicine today is 'do your clinical values fall within a normal range?' Everything in the globe right now is in the law of averages, which mean absolutely nothing to individuals. Craig Venter nothinglawtodayfall My complaint is that there are more books and news articles than there are primary scientific papers. I am probably the biggest critic of the hypesters, because it's dangerous when fields get overhyped. Craig Venter i-ammoredangerousnews I am absolutely certain that life can exist in outer space, move around, find a new aqueous environment. Craig Venter i-amnewspacelife I think I'm a survivor. I could have suffered at least 100 professional deaths. I could come up with a list of the 100 times I've come closest to death, from having pneumonia as a child to car crashes. Craig Venter childthinkcardeath One of the things about genetics that has become clearer as we've done genomes - as we've worked our way through the evolutionary tree, including humans - is that we're probably much more genetic animals than we want to confess we are. Craig Venter donewanttreeway We can do genetics. We can do experiments on fruit flies. We can do experiments on yeast. It's not so easy to do experiments on humans. So, in fact, it helps us, to interpret our own genetic code, to have the genetic code of the other species. Craig Venter usownfruiteasy How we understand our own selves and how we work with our DNA software has implications that will affect everything from vaccine development to new approaches to antibiotics, new sources of food, new sources of chemicals, even potentially new sources of energy. Craig Venter understandenergyworkfood
