Juan Enriquez Quotes

One of the more fantastic possibilities is that man will be able to make biological carbon copies of himself.

Cloning interferon was not something I wanted to get into.

Humans are something very different from animals, and the numbers required to get cloning to work in animals are completely prohibitory with humans.

There are two kinds of cloning right now. One is therapeutic cloning which is for coming up with cures for life threatening, really, really awful diseases. Then there is reproductive cloning, which is to make a human being out of your DNA and a donor egg.

We're moving from reading the genetic code to writing it.

There is absolutely no doubt about it, and I may not be the one that does it, but the cloned child is coming. There is absolutely no way that it will not happen.

At the moment, our society does not permit human cloning. But that could change.

Cloning isn’t all that unusual. For thousands of years we have been cloning plants.

A human clone is nothing but an identical twin that is born much later.

Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.

Human beings have been manipulating the biological world for thousands of years without understanding how DNA codes function.

Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.

We managed to write chapter one. Chapter two, we will have a child a parent can take home and raise as a cloned child.

I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.

There is a pent-up demand from people who want to clone their dead children.

We are going from reading our genetic code to the ability to write it. That gives us the hypothetical ability to do things never contemplated before.

As we all saw in grade school, once you learn how to read a book, somebody is going to want to write one - that's how authors are made. Once we know how to read our own genetic code, someone is going to want to rewrite that 'text,' tinker with traits - play God, some would say.

People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?

With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code.

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.

During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA could influence the study of genetics and I was an early and active proponent of the Human Genome Sequencing Project.

Now that we can read and write the genetic code, put it in digital form and translate it back into synthesized life, it will be possible to speed up biological evolution to the pace of social evolution.

Certainly I see no reason why society should prevent grieving parents from having a baby cloned from the cells of a dead child if they wish.

I'm trying to grow more limbs in order to multitask at a greater rate and I'm also investigating the possibilities of cloning. Because nothing would be more useful than having multiples of me, and that way, I could do all of the things I'd like to do in the short amount of time we all have here.

Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad. If used wisely, genetics can be beneficial, but they can be abused, too.