I would love to be remembered for ridding the world of disease, but my knowledge of science comes from episodes of 'Nova' and shows on the Discovery Channel. I don't think a superficial understanding of shark behavior and black holes can help cure diseases.
Embryonic stem cell research will prolong life, improve life and give hope for life to millions of people.
Mr. Speaker, the scientific evidence is overwhelming that embryonic stem cells have great potential to regenerate specific types of human tissues, offering hope for millions of Americans suffering from debilitating diseases.
Science has provided us with an alternative called stem cell research …. We’ve lost so much time already and I really can’t bear to wait anymore.
I started my career as a surgeon 25 years ago. But it turned out that I am not talented as a surgeon, so I decided to change my career. But I still feel that I am a doctor. So my goal, all my life, is to bring this stem-cell technology to the bedside.
It is an incontrovertible fact that if we want to make progress in basic areas of medicine and biology, we are going to have to use animals.
America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.
When radium was discovered, no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it.
I don't want to die until I see cancer cured.
Jonas Salk showed that a killed virus vaccine would work and would be damned effective in fighting disease. This was something that virologists of the day pooh-poohed. And Salk proved them wrong.
Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.
(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.
The discovery of artemisinin was an example of successful collective efforts.
Just like some day, say, 1000 years from now, when we can go to another star and see a planet, that's what we would do because we will know how to cure cancer, cure birth defects, so we would teach them.
A doctor can save maybe a few hundred lives in a lifetime. A researcher can save the whole world.
Stem cell research has the greatest promise of any scientific development.
The Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I've developed are rewards in themselves.
While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities [smallpox], blended with the fond hope of enjoying independence and domestic peace and happiness, was often so excessive that, in pursuing my favourite subject among the meadows, I have sometimes found myself in a kind of reverie.
You can make pigs that are essentially much closer to being universal donors. If it works, their organs will be going into people like you and me.
Earlier this week ... scientists announced the completion of a task that once seemed unimaginable; and that is, the deciphering of the entire DNA sequence of the human genetic code. This amazing accomplishment is likely to affect the 21st century as profoundly as the invention of the computer or the splitting of the atom affected the 20th century. I believe that the 21st century will be the century of life sciences, and nothing makes that point more clearly than this momentous discovery. It will revolutionize medicine as we know it today.
Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics.
I can cure AIDS, and I will.
It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.
Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success.
We're getting closer. I believe a 5-year-old with diabetes will live long enough to be cured.
