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IPS cells can become a powerful tool to develop new drugs to cure intractable diseases because they can be made from patients' somatic cells.

— Shinya Yamanaka

My idea right from the beginning, I guess, was to dismantle the immune system one gene at a time so we could track the…

— Bruce Beutler

“I think, therefore a single fertilized egg cell can replicate itself into trillions of specialized and exquisitely organized cells.”

— Self

“Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers—passageways—for genes.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Part of the problem was that no one knew exactly how a cell took a nucleic acid sequence and turned it into a blob…

— Matthew Cobb

In the earlier years when I started this project at Stanford University, everyone told me it was nuts to go and try to reproduce…

— James Rothman

“Genes aren’t designed to make us happy. They design us to make more copies of themselves.”

— Joe Quirk

“The gene provides an organizing principle for modern biology—and it tantalizes us with the prospect of controlling our bodies and fates.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“it's in the genes”

— Lois Denny

“Progress along the biological path is clearly feasible.”

— Nick Bostrom

If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in…

— Herbert Spencer

We are sometimes asked what the result would be if we put four +'s in one gene. To answer this my colleagues have recently…

— Francis Crick