the most important scientific effort that humankind has ever mounted.

We said that once we had finished sequencing the genome we would make it available to the scientific community for free, ... And we will be doing that on Monday morning at 10am.

Carole Lartigue led the effort to actually transplant a bacterial chromosome from one bacteria to another.

One important part of scientific training is that scientists learn the boundaries, the safety issues, how to properly deal with and dispose of chemicals and reagents.

Right now, oil is being isolated around the globe, and there is a major effort in shipping, trucking and otherwise transporting that oil around to a very finite number of refineries. Biology allows us to make these same fuels in a much more distributed fashion.

We can now diagnose diseases that haven't even manifested in the patient, and may not until the fifth decade of life - if at all.