John Sulston
John Sulston
Sir John Edward Sulston FRSis a British biologist. For his work on the cell lineage and genome of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, he was jointly awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sydney Brenner and Robert Horvitz. As of 2014 he is Chair of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the University of Manchester...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth27 March 1942
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We can choose to address the twin issues of population and consumption to rebalance the use of resources to a more egalitarian pattern of consumption.
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The strong evidence is that we're running out of space. We're collectively affecting the world's climate. This is due to the still-growing human population and our increase in consumption.
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Science and the many benefits that science has produced have played a crucial part in our history and produced vast improvements to human welfare.
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Biomedical research is only as good as its delivery. Distribution of medicines by charities is no more than a stopgap.
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You have to say - and I do - that anything that blocks that cheapest possible point-of-care delivery of health is wrong.
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Whilst worthy in themselves, applications shouldn't be the only way to drive basic research.
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I don't want a few extra weeks of life at enormous cost, for example, when it comes to the end.
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I don't think one ought to bring a clearly disabled child into the world.
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I would say if we can select children who are not going to be severely disadvantaged, then we should do so, but I think it has to be done by voluntary choice.
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On my mother's side, I come from Midlands engineers and, on my father's, from tenant farmers near Oxford.
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Many people thought that, given my knowledge of the egg, I should analyse embryonic mutants.
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Muriel, my mother, was my main confidant. She was a teacher of English at Watford grammar school but took a break while my sister Madeleine and I were children. She held court in the kitchen, and we talked about everything.
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The only thing I have retained from my upbringing - I did not retain the religious element - is the idea that you do not do things for money.
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We knew that all the protein-coding bits of genes do is to produce protein - they have to have instructions to turn them on and off. Those sequences lie well outside the protein-coding sequences, sometimes thousands, tens of thousands of bases away.