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John Gurdon Quotes

The work I was involved in had no obvious therapeutic benefit. It was purely of scientific interest. I hope the country will continue to support basic research even though it may have no obvious practical value Picture Quote #1

If you took some famous religious leader, for example, and said it would be nice to clone them indefinitely so you have a dynasty of leaders, my own guess would be that each time the cloning takes place, they would become more and more defective, presumably mentally defective and subsequently worse Picture Quote #1

I get into lab early and leave a bit early, too. So I like to have an hour or two before everybody comes in Picture Quote #1

It’s a very complex network of genes making products which go into the nucleus and turn on other genes. And, in fact, you find a continuing network of processes going on in a very complex way by which genes are subject to these continual adjustments, as you might say - the computer programmer deciding which genes ultimately will work Picture Quote #1

I think that I cannot immediately see the route by which we should really understand memory and the workings of the brain Picture Quote #1

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The earliest example known to me of replaced body parts is exemplified by a Mayan skull dating back to 1400 BC. In this skull, false teeth made of stone had been implanted Picture Quote #1

Shinya Yamanaka’s work has involved mice and human cells, and advances the prospect of providing new cells or body parts for patients Picture Quote #1

There’s a danger of some of the best people saying, ‘I don’t want a career in science.’ Picture Quote #1

I take the view that anything you can do to relieve suffering or improve human health will usually be widely accepted by the public - that is to say, if cloning actually turned out to be solving some problems and was useful to people, I think it would be accepted Picture Quote #1

It is particularly pleasing to see how purely basic research, originally aimed at testing the genetic identity of different cell types in the body, has turned out to have clear human health prospects Picture Quote #1

My first attempts to transplant nuclei in Xenopus were completely unsuccessful, because the Xenopus egg, unlike those of other amphibians, is surrounded by an extremely elastic membrane and jelly layer that make penetration by a micropipette impossible Picture Quote #1

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The first point to remember is that attempts to clone mice have actually been very unsuccessful for at least a decade. Sheep have been successful. So one asks, ‘Where do humans lie?’ Most people think they are somewhere between the two, but at least there’s a reasonable chance they might be clone-able Picture Quote #1

For my part, I have worked all my life with eggs and embryos of frogs. Compared to other small animals, these have figured prominently in the world of literature Picture Quote #1

I myself have been a major beneficiary of the view that no animal will more repay treatment that is kind and fair Picture Quote #1

As with most animal eggs, the early events of amphibian development are largely independent of the environment, and the processes leading to cell differentiation must involve a redistribution and interaction of constituents already present in the fertilized egg Picture Quote #1

I have this rather amazing report which, roughly speaking, says I was the worst student the biology master had ever taught Picture Quote #1

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The work I was involved in had no obvious therapeutic benefit. It was purely of scientific interest. I hope the country will continue to support basic research even though it may have no obvious practical value. (John Gurdon Quotes) As a brand new graduate student starting in October 1956, my supervisor Michail Fischberg, a lecturer in the Department of Zoology at Oxford, suggested that I should try to make somatic cell nuclear transplantation work in the South African frog Xenopus laevis. (John Gurdon Quotes) If you took some famous religious leader, for example, and said it would be nice to clone them indefinitely so you have a dynasty of leaders, my own guess would be that each time the cloning takes place, they would become more and more defective, presumably mentally defective and subsequently worse. (John Gurdon Quotes) I get into lab early and leave a bit early, too. So I like to have an hour or two before everybody comes in. (John Gurdon Quotes) It’s a very complex network of genes making products which go into the nucleus and turn on other genes. And, in fact, you find a continuing network of processes going on in a very complex way by which genes are subject to these continual adjustments, as you might say - the computer programmer deciding which genes ultimately will work. (John Gurdon Quotes) I think that I cannot immediately see the route by which we should really understand memory and the workings of the brain. (John Gurdon Quotes) The earliest example known to me of replaced body parts is exemplified by a Mayan skull dating back to 1400 BC. In this skull, false teeth made of stone had been implanted. (John Gurdon Quotes) Shinya Yamanaka’s work has involved mice and human cells, and advances the prospect of providing new cells or body parts for patients. (John Gurdon Quotes) There’s a danger of some of the best people saying, ‘I don’t want a career in science.’ (John Gurdon Quotes) I take the view that anything you can do to relieve suffering or improve human health will usually be widely accepted by the public - that is to say, if cloning actually turned out to be solving some problems and was useful to people, I think it would be accepted (John Gurdon Quotes) It is particularly pleasing to see how purely basic research, originally aimed at testing the genetic identity of different cell types in the body, has turned out to have clear human health prospects. (John Gurdon Quotes) My first attempts to transplant nuclei in Xenopus were completely unsuccessful, because the Xenopus egg, unlike those of other amphibians, is surrounded by an extremely elastic membrane and jelly layer that make penetration by a micropipette impossible. (John Gurdon Quotes) The first point to remember is that attempts to clone mice have actually been very unsuccessful for at least a decade. Sheep have been successful. So one asks, ‘Where do humans lie?’ Most people think they are somewhere between the two, but at least there’s a reasonable chance they might be clone-able. (John Gurdon Quotes) For my part, I have worked all my life with eggs and embryos of frogs. Compared to other small animals, these have figured prominently in the world of literature. (John Gurdon Quotes) I myself have been a major beneficiary of the view that no animal will more repay treatment that is kind and fair. (John Gurdon Quotes) As with most animal eggs, the early events of amphibian development are largely independent of the environment, and the processes leading to cell differentiation must involve a redistribution and interaction of constituents already present in the fertilized egg. (John Gurdon Quotes) I have this rather amazing report which, roughly speaking, says I was the worst student the biology master had ever taught. (John Gurdon Quotes)