Beijing Quote by Michael Specter

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

“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

Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area.

— Gordon Brown

I founded Wang Laboratories . . . to show that Chinese could excel at things other than running laundries and restaurants.

— Dr. An Wang

Billions of dollars have been put into genetic research.

— Anne Wojcicki

Baidu Research has three labs - two in Beijing that are already largely built up, and the Silicon Valley one is being built from…

— Andrew Ng

Until the Nineteen-Eighties, when Deng Xiaoping designated the area as China's first special economic zone, Shenzhen had been a tiny fishing village. Suddenly, eleven…

— Michael Specter

China is a great manufacturing center, but it's actually mostly an assembly plant. So it assembles parts and components, high technology that comes from…

— Noam Chomsky

China, with its large emerging middle class, is among the big beneficiaries of globalization.

— Joseph Stiglitz

The People's Republic of China has 2 million strong in its military, and it's trying to make them stronger through gene editing, and that's…

— John Ratcliffe

If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.

— Wang Jianlin

The biggest reveal was that a lot of these DNA test companies, they're commercial enterprises, right? So they basically purchase or acquire DNA samples…

— Alex Wagner