The Vietnam War totally turned my life around. Some people's lives were eliminated or destroyed by the experience. I was one of the fortunate few who came out better off.
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Part of the problem with the discovery of the so-called breast-cancer genes was that physicians wrongly told women that had the genetic changes associated with the genes that they had a 99% chance of getting breast cancer. Turns out all women that have these genetic changes don't get breast cancer.
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There are still so many questions to answer about the workings of the human body and, most mysterious of all, it is influenced by our state of mind.
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As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design.
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The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.
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Sometime in the future, I am a hundred percent certain scientists will sit down at a computer terminal, design what they want the organism to do, and build it.
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