“Our goal is to get to where we can do a whole genome analysis in minutes or hours, in contrast to months.”
Craig Venter announces his plans to set up a non-profit, ultra-fast sequencing centre (The New York Times, 15 August)
“In my opinion, putting animal cells and tissues or organs into humans is kind of like playing Russian roulette.”
Alan Berger, a member of the US Secretary of Health’s Advisory Committee on Xenotransplantation (Newsday, New York, 20 August)
“I think they would have sounded like geese, they probably would have honked and squawked something like geese and they certainly would have looked a bit like…
