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Life was so cheap in Vietnam. That is where my sense of urgency comes from. ”
The pace of digitizing life has been increasing exponentially. ”
We can now diagnose diseases that haven't even manifested in the patient, and may not until the fifth decade of life - if at all. ”
A lot of people spend their last decade of their lives in pain and misery combating disease. ”
There is a long history of how DNA sequencing can bring certainty to people's lives. ”
You can't have life without the genetic code. ”
The gene 'klotho' was named after the Greek Fate purported to spin the thread of life, because it contributes to longevity. ”
Life is a DNA software system. ”
A doctor can save maybe a few hundred lives in a lifetime. A researcher can save the whole world. ”
I naively thought that we could have a molecular definition for life, come up with a set of genes that would minimally define life. Nature just refuses to be so easily quantified. ”