Leroy Hood Quotes

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• An important finding is that by determining the genome sequences of an entire family, one can identify many DNA sequencing errors and thus greatly increase…
• What is unique about humans is their individuality.
• Genes are natural resources.
• To manipulate the immune system, you need to find the key bottlenecks that govern the system. The T-cell is an absolute bottleneck.
• Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.
• Data-intensive graph problems abound in the Life Science drug discovery and development process.
• Your genome sequence will become a vital part of your medical record, thereby providing critical information about how to optimize your wellness.
• The Human Genome Project has given us a genetic parts list.
• If a startup stays in Microsoft, it does not have a chance, because all it tries to do goes against what Microsoft is about.
• Life is a process of evolution.
• The major thing is to view biology as an information science.
• The systems approach to biology will be the dominant theme in medicine.
• If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right.
• Medicine will be personalized and preventive: Your genome might predict that you have an 80 percent chance of breast cancer by the time you are…
• I have good genes, and I also do lots of exercises.
• We are evolutionary descendents of this marvellous panoply of life. And what that says unequivocally is we have an utter total obligation to make sure…
• My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful.
• In the late 1970s, when I was a professor at Caltech, I pioneered four instruments for analyzing genes and proteins that revolutionized modern biology -…
• Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly.
• Many nonprofits rely on grants alone.

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