People who drink four or more cups of coffee a day – it doesn’t matter whether it is caffeinated or decaffeinated – have a reduction in Type 2 diabetes, or a reduced incidence of Type 2 diabetes, of about fifty percent. The same with Parkinson’s, although there it is more related to the caffeine. Gregory Stock Read Quote
There is a pent-up demand from people who want to clone their dead children. Gregory Stock Read Quote
We should be happy. We should be enjoying that there is all this bounty. Somebody can take an iPod and have all the world’s music at their beck and call in an instant. What an amazing thing! Gregory Stock Read Quote
In my view, the most damaging evils that are perpetrated upon us are through some abstract notion about good, where we’re willing to sacrifice individuals in the present for some great vision of an improved or perfect future. Gregory Stock Read Quote
Consciousness, for me, is a manifestation of complexity in biology. It’s an emergent property. Gregory Stock Read Quote
As we decipher our biology and learn to modify and adjust it, we are learning to modify ourselves – and we will do so. No laws will stop this. Gregory Stock Read Quote
The genomics revolution, proteomics, metabolomics, all of these ‘omics’ that sound so terrific on grants and on business plans. What we’re doing is we are seizing control of our evolutionary future. I mean we’re essentially using technology to just jam evolution into fast-forward. Gregory Stock Read Quote
If out of concern over cloning, the U.S. Congress succeeds in criminalizing embryonic stem-cell research that might bring treatments for Alzheimer’s disease or diabetes – and Dr. Fukuyama lent his name to a petition that supported such laws – there would be real victims: present and future sufferers of those diseases. Gregory Stock Read Quote
No one really has the guts to say it, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn’t we? Gregory Stock Read Quote
