In chemicals, Synthetic Genomics is one of my real loves.

It once seemed that the most profound feats stemming from DNA-based science would spring from our ability to read and detect genes, which we…

— Scott Gottlieb

Synthetic or inorganic substances do not contain any 'life force'; they are not dynamic. Everything is made of chemicals, but organic substances like essential…

— Robert Tisserand

The effort to eliminate synthetic pesticides because of unsubstantiated fears about residues in food will make fruits and vegetables more expensive, decrease consumption, and…

— Bruce Ames

When you think about it, caring for patients is 99 percent information and 1 percent intervention, so it's clear that with or without genomics,…

— Christopher G. Chute

Now we have technology where we can modify the genomics of individuals by gene transfer and genetic meddling, we may find that people will…

— Robert Winston

The genomics revolution, proteomics, metabolomics, all of these 'omics' that sound so terrific on grants and on business plans. What we're doing is we…

— Gregory Stock

There has to be some more regulation. But our kids have this incredible buffet of they can work in genomics, they can work in…

— Juan Enriquez

“Far from being a homogenous "Big Science," biotechnology is highly diversified and heterogeneous. "The" human genome is not a single database, but a cluster…

— Eduardo Kac

In the 1960s and '70s, there wasn't much evidence at all. We knew vaguely the causes of cancer, but methods like genomics were very…

— Harold E. Varmus

“The dirty little secret of genomics is that we still know next to nothing about how a genome translates into the particularities of a…

— Svante Pääbo

We are still working with an incomplete compass. The time is right to bring the full power of genomics to bear on the problem…

— Francis Collins

From a genomic perspective, we are all Africans.

— Svante Paabo

Like the early days of the Internet, the dawn of personal genomics promises benefits and pitfalls that no one can foresee.

— Steven Pinker

I...asked why purebloods despised me so. He replied, 'What if the difference between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even…

— David Mitchell

A Machine to Make a Future is an insightful and creative contribution to the literature--both scholarly and journalistic--on contemporary genomics. By 'experimenting' with narrative…

— Nadia Abu El Haj