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If we understand the worm, we understand life.
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Understand
Worm
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What is the purpose of being human and alive without doing new things?
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Alive
Being Human
New Things
Purpose
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I don't think one ought to bring a clearly disabled child into the world.
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Disabled
Ought
Clearly
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Many people thought that, given my knowledge of the egg, I should analyse embryonic mutants.
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Analyse
Egg
Embryonic
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Whilst worthy in themselves, applications shouldn't be the only way to drive basic research.
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Basic Research
Worthy
Applications
Whilst
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I don't want a few extra weeks of life at enormous cost, for example, when it comes to the end.
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Cost
Enormous
Example
Weeks
Extra
For Example
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On my mother's side, I come from Midlands engineers and, on my father's, from tenant farmers near Oxford.
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Engineers
Farmers
Oxford
Near
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The Wellcome Trust is a hugely important organisation, and it is vital that its fundraising continues unabated.
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Fundraising
Organisation
Hugely
Vital
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As far back as I remember, and earlier, I was an artisan, a maker and doer. Mechanically minded, my parents said.
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Artisan
Doer
Maker
Earlier
Minded
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Biomedical research is only as good as its delivery. Distribution of medicines by charities is no more than a stopgap.
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Biomedical
Delivery
Distribution
Research
Charities
Medicines
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You have to say - and I do - that anything that blocks that cheapest possible point-of-care delivery of health is wrong.
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Delivery
Blocks
Cheapest
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In science, as in business, there must be structures that ensure the well endowed do not use their position to block competition.
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Block
Competition
Endowed
Ensure
Structures
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The fact is that proprietary databases don't work for such basic and broadly needed information as the sequence of the human genome.
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Databases
Genome
Sequence
Proprietary
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The only thing I have retained from my upbringing - I did not retain the religious element - is the idea that you do not do things for money.
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Upbringing
Element
Retain
The Only Thing
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Science and the many benefits that science has produced have played a crucial part in our history and produced vast improvements to human welfare.
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Benefits
Crucial
Welfare
Vast
Produced
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The free market is the epitome of life itself. This is something that all scientists recognise because science itself operates on free market lines.
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Epitome
Free Market
Recognise
Scientists
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We can choose to address the twin issues of population and consumption to rebalance the use of resources to a more egalitarian pattern of consumption.
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Consumption
Issues
Population
Resources
Address
Twin
Egalitarian
Pattern
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I would say if we can select children who are not going to be severely disadvantaged, then we should do so, but I think it has to be done by voluntary choice.
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Disadvantaged
Select
Voluntary
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Title deeds establish and protect ownership of our houses, while security of property is as important to the proprietors of Tesco and Sainsbury's as it is to their customers.
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Customers
Deeds
Ownership
Property
Establish
Houses
Title
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Our work on C. elegans emphasized the benefits of sharing large amounts of information. We took a global approach to discover the mechanisms that led to the development of the worm.
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Amount
Approach
Benefits
Development
Information
Discover
Emphasized
Global
Large
Large Amounts
Led
Mechanisms
Sharing
Took
Worm
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It is not a Pandora's box that science opens; it is, rather, a treasure chest. We, humanity, can choose whether or not to take out the discoveries and use them, and for what purpose.
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Science
Humanity
Pandora
Pandora's Box
Purpose
Treasure
Box
Chest
Choose
Discoveries
Opens
Rather
Whether
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The strong evidence is that we're running out of space. We're collectively affecting the world's climate. This is due to the still-growing human population and our increase in consumption.
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Consumption
Evidence
Human Population
Increase
Population
Affecting
Collectively
Due
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I'm pleased that some economists and sociologists are beginning to talk about, for example, alternative measures of human well-being - alternative, that is, to GDP, on which the world runs.
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Example
Gdp
Well Being
Alternative
Talk
Beginning
Economists
For Example
Measures
Pleased
Runs
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The fruits of science and innovation have nourished our society and economy for years, but nations unable to navigate our regulatory system are often excluded, as are vulnerable individuals.
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Excluded
Innovation
Nations
Vulnerable
Fruits
Individuals
Nourished
Regulatory
Unable
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In order to protect the market value of a proprietary database, the owner must prohibit redistribution of the contents - otherwise, the information would quickly leak out and be widely known.
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Information
Contents
Database
Owner
Leak
Market
Otherwise
Prohibit
Quickly
Redistribution
Value
Widely
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When results are shared freely amongst the biological community, as has been done for the worm and the Human Genome Projects, specialist scientists can move much more rapidly towards their goals.
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Community
Genome
Projects
Amongst
Biological
Freely
Towards
Rapidly
Scientists
Shared
Specialist
Worm
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When it came to choice of subjects, science was obvious - since I was uninterested in anything else - but a decision that caused consternation in some eyes was my demand to take biology for A-level.
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Biology
Consternation
Decision
Demand
Obvious
Subjects
Uninterested
Caused
Anything Else
Choice
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The human world lives in a framework called global economics. We live in a system based on GDP, which drives consumption. it causes people to compete with each other through trade in a way that they all grow.
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Causes
Consumption
Economics
Framework
Gdp
Trade
World Grow People
Based
Grow
Compete
Drives
Global
System
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If you patent a discovery which is unique, say a human gene or even just one particular function of a human gene, then you are actually creating a monopoly, and that's not the purpose of the world of patents.
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Creating
Discovery
Function
Just One
Monopoly
Particular
Patents
Purpose
Unique
Gene
Patent
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I believe our basic information, our 'software', should be free and open for everyone to play with, to compete with, to try and make products from. I do not believe it should be under the control of one person.
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Software
Believe I Believe Information
Compete
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It was a matter of not living lavishly but enjoying what you had, growing things with your hands, working hard, but not being tied to a nine-to-five job, and generally feeling that there's more to life than money.
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Hands
Tied
Life Money Your
Life Money Living
Enjoying
Generally
Nine-To-Five
Working Hard
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The myth is that IP rights are as important as our rights in castles, cars, and corn oil. IP is supposedly intended to encourage inventors and the investment needed to bring their products to the clinic and marketplace.
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Castles
Clinic
Corn
Investment
Marketplace
Myth
Needed
Oil
Products
Rights
Intended
Inventors
Ip
Supposedly
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The currencies of science are discoveries and ideas; the rewards are the excitement of going where nobody has been before and, if one is inclined to such things, the kudos of peer acclaim, plus funds to do more research.
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Science
Acclaim
Excitement
Ideas
Plus
Research
Rewards
Nobody
Discoveries
Funds
Inclined
Peer
Such Things
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I wandered along to the chemistry labs, more or less on the rebound, and asked about becoming a research student. It was the '60s, a time of university expansion: the doors were open, and a 2:1 was good enough to get me in.
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Becoming
Chemistry
Doors
Enough
Expansion
Labs
Rebound
Research
University
Time Good Me
Time Good Enough
Asked
Less
Open
Student
More Or Less
The Doors
Wandered
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Muriel, my mother, was my main confidant. She was a teacher of English at Watford grammar school but took a break while my sister Madeleine and I were children. She held court in the kitchen, and we talked about everything.
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Sister
Teacher
Break
Confidant
Court
Grammar
Grammar School
English
Held
Main
Talked
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An awful lot of food is thrown away. This you can call a spillover. It doesn't sort of enter into our economic system because it's a consequence of running things in a highly competitive way: the free market, global pricing and so on.
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Consequence
Free Market
Pricing
Thrown
Awful Lot
Competitive
Economic System
Enter
Global
Highly
Market
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We knew that all the protein-coding bits of genes do is to produce protein - they have to have instructions to turn them on and off. Those sequences lie well outside the protein-coding sequences, sometimes thousands, tens of thousands of bases away.
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Bases
Bits
Genes
Produce
Protein
Lie
Instructions
On And Off
Outside
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
Thousands
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It is very clear that the present system of innovation for medicines is very inefficient and really somewhat corrupt. It benefits shareholders over patients; it produces for the rich markets and not for the poor and does not produce for minority diseases.
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Benefits
Clear
Innovation
Poor
Produce
Rich
Shareholders
Does
Corrupt
Somewhat
Diseases
Over
Inefficient
Markets
Medicines
Minority
Present
Patients
System
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There's always a tension between those who would like to garner wealth, and they contribute a lot to society. There's also those who say, 'I believe in the common good. I want that to be enlarged.' They contribute a lot to society. The tension, the debate, between these two views is extremely important to our progress.
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Common Good
Debate
Tension
Views
Wealth
Good Society Believe
Contribute
Garner
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