Biomedical research is only as good as its delivery. Distribution of medicines by charities is no more than a stopgap. John Sulston Read Quote
Science and the many benefits that science has produced have played a crucial part in our history and produced vast improvements to human welfare. John Sulston Read Quote
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. John Sulston Read Quote
I don’t want a few extra weeks of life at enormous cost, for example, when it comes to the end. John Sulston Read Quote
Many people thought that, given my knowledge of the egg, I should analyse embryonic mutants. John Sulston Read Quote
The fact is that proprietary databases don’t work for such basic and broadly needed information as the sequence of the human genome. John Sulston Read Quote
Whilst worthy in themselves, applications shouldn’t be the only way to drive basic research. John Sulston Read Quote
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. John Sulston Read Quote
