Company Quote by Herbert Boyer

My dad worked for Del Monte and then for Monsanto as one of the chief scientists on the Calgene Flavr Savr Tomato. But it…

— Sanjay Rawal

My passion for innovation and my interest in the 'business of science' has seen Biocon commercialize many innovative platforms and products.

— Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

In 1995, I founded The Molecular Sciences Institute with a gift from the Philip Morris Company where I hoped that we could create an…

— Sydney Brenner

That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and…

— Paul Berg

“I'd recently co-founded an institute in the Bay Area called the Innovative Genomics Institute (ICI) with the goal of advancing gene-editing technologies.”

— Jennifer A. Doudna

In the late 1970s, when I was a professor at Caltech, I pioneered four instruments for analyzing genes and proteins that revolutionized modern biology…

— Leroy Hood

It was a chance encounter with a biotech entrepreneur from Ireland that got me started as an entrepreneur in India, because I partnered this…

— Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Years ago I began to realize that any genome can make any other, practically. Barbara McClintock, 1980

— Barbara McClintock

“The genes are master programmers, and they are programming for their lives.”

— Richard Dawkins

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…

— Michael Specter

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

“It is fiercely inventive. It squeezes complexity out of simplicity. It orchestrates the activation or repression of certain genes in only certain cells and…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee