Jack Horner Quotes

There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.

We are going from reading our genetic code to the ability to write it. That gives us the hypothetical ability to do things never contemplated before.

As we all saw in grade school, once you learn how to read a book, somebody is going to want to write one - that's how authors are made. Once we know how to read our own genetic code, someone is going to want to rewrite that 'text,' tinker with traits - play God, some would say.

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.

We're moving from reading the genetic code to writing it.

… biologists are now going to be directing evolution.

The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress.

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 call the science of genomics. But the real opportunities lie in our ability to write DNA, to synthesize new gene sequences and insert them into organisms, resulting in brand-new biological functions.

This is a whole new era where we're moving beyond little edits on single genes to being able to write whatever we want throughout the genome. The goal is to be able to change it as radically as our understanding permits.

No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?

I started stem cells when I wanted to find a cure for my mother, who I loved very much, and western medicine was not able to cure her. If I had discovered stem cells a year before, I think that she would still be here with me.

I may be the only person in the world who has my own embryonic cells growing in a petri dish.

Our increasing ability to alter our biology and open up the processes of life is now fueling a new cultural war.

Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading. But once we get past that - once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with - when we start thinking about the future, there's an opportunity to create some new life-forms.

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.

I'm the chief science officer of a foundation that works on the application of regenerative medicine to the problem of aging.

Like the 'test tube babies' born of in vitro fertilization, cloned children need not be identifiable, much less freaks or outcasts.

There's massive government initiatives going around the world, and you see that there's a real enthusiasm for genetics.

Genetically modified foods are good.

You can now modify the genes of large animals, and the largest animal we are concerned with is the human.

Can we develop so sound and extensive a genetics that we can hope to breed, in the future, superior men?

Embryonic stem cell research is a key that will unlock the future.

Genetic engineering of are own species is not a question of if, but only a question of when….The human race may bifurcate into two subspecies of humans: Enhanced and Unenhanced.

Renegade scientists and totalitarian loonies are not the folks most likely to abuse genetic engineering. You and I are--not because we are bad but because we want to do good. In a world dominated by competition, parents understandably want to give their kids every advantage. ... The most likely way for eugenics to enter into our lives is through the front door as nervous parents ... will fall over one another to be first to give Junior a better set of genes.

Like other new and potentially powerful technologies, gene editing raises legitimate questions and understandable concerns about possible risks and misuse. How, then, should the technology be regulated? Rules developed decades ago for other forms of genetic engineering do not necessarily fit. Noting that gene-edited organisms are not transgenic, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has reasonably concluded that genetically edited plants are like plants with naturally occurring mutations and thus are not subject to special regulations and raise no special safety concerns.