David Baltimore quotes
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“When are we going to say cancer is cured? I'm not sure when that will happen, if that will happen because cancer is a very slippery disease and it involves a vast number of cells in the body and those cells are continually mutating.”
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“I think they are looking for publicity and they are looking for a name for themselves.”
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“The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning.”
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“I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born.”
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“There is actually a fair amount of money being put behind science today.”
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“What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What's its importance? We know the answer to that for a very small number of genes, the ones that made themselves evident many years ago.”
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“When we talk about stem cells, we are actually talking about a complicated series of things, including adult stem cells which are largely cells devoted to replacing individual tissues like blood elements or liver or even the brain.”
-- David BaltimoreSource : "Science Policy for the 21st Century". "Groks Science" with Frank Ling, grokscience.wordpress.com.
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“The American Cancer Society has done the American public a really great disservice.”
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