38 Most Famous Jennifer Doudna Quotes (BIOCHEMIST)

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Nature is the world's best inventor, and so we're finding ways to use what nature has discovered and turn it into a technology. — **Nature** is the world’s best inventor, and so we’re finding ways to use what nature has discovered and turn it into a **technology**.

The more we know, the more we realize there is to know.

Science is a creative process. It requires imagination, the ability to connect dots that maybe other people haven't connected before. — Science is a creative process. It requires **imagination**, the **ability** to connect dots that maybe other people haven’t connected before.

The power to control our species’ genetic future is awesome and terrifying. Deciding how to handle it may be the biggest challenge we have ever faced. — The power to control our species’ genetic **future** is awesome and terrifying. Deciding how to handle it may be the biggest **challenge** we have ever faced.

The power to control evolution, to affect how species change, will be in the hands of humans. — The power to control evolution, to affect how species **change**, will be in the hands of humans.

The more we learn about the genome, the more excited I am about the potential for new therapies and new ways to impact human health. — The more we **learn** about the genome, the more excited I am about the potential for new therapies and new ways to impact human **health**.

Humans have been reshaping the physical world for millennia, but the effects have never been as dramatic as they are today.

If you're a curious person, science is a great field because you're always learning something new. — If you’re a curious person, science is a great field because you’re always **learning** something new.

One of the exciting things about science is that every question answered leads to two new questions.

One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking the walk. — One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in **leadership** roles, and I’d like to see that **change** by walking the walk.

5 Jennifer Doudna Quotes on CRISPR technology

“Tomatoes that can sit in the pantry slowly ripening for months without rotting. Plants that can better weather climate change. Mosquitoes that are unable to transmit malaria. Ultra-muscular dogs that make fearsome partners for police and soldiers. Cows that no longer grow horns. These organisms might sound far-fetched, but in fact, they already exist, thanks to gene editing. And they’re only the beginning. As I write this, the world around us is being revolutionized by CRISPR, whether we’re ready for it or not.”
Jennifer Doudna

CRISPR technology has opened up the floodgates of DNA, allowing us to change any DNA sequence in any species.

“We’ve gone from the stage where we’re just beginning to understand what the CRISPR system does, to the point where we can actually fix some kind of genetic mutations that would otherwise lead to terrible diseases.”
Jennifer Doudna

Armed with the complete CRISPR toolkit, scientists can now exert nearly complete control over both the composition of the genome and its output.

“There’s already a lot of active research going on using the Crispr technology to fix diseases like Duchenne muscular dystrophy or cystic fibrosis or Huntington’s disease. They’re all diseases that have known genetic causes, and we now have the technology that can repair those mutations to provide, we hope, patients with a normal life.”
Jennifer Doudna

7 Jennifer Doudna Quotes on Her Career & Being a Scientist

“I think it’s important for scientists to communicate to the public about the work that we do, because there are implications to the work that we do that are far-reaching and that affect people’s lives.”
Jennifer Doudna

As scientists, we are excited about the possibilities that are opened up by new technologies, but we also need to be cognizant of the consequences of those technologies.

I have always focused on basic research, motivated by a desire to understand the world. — I have always **focused** on basic research, motivated by a desire to understand the world.

I think there's a certain level of risk-taking that goes along with being a scientist. — I think there’s a certain level of **risk-taking** that goes along with being a scientist.

“The impression sometimes created among the public is that scientists are working away in their labs, and maybe they’re not always thinking about the implications of their work. But we are.”
Jennifer Doudna

I think the best scientists are those that can be creative and think outside the box.

As scientists, we need to explain what we’re doing and why we’re doing it, not dictating how these discoveries and technologies should be used.

6 Jennifer Doudna Quotes on Technology & Science

“One can envisage taking cells from a patient with sickle-cell anaemia or an inherited blood disorder and using the Cas9 system to fix the underlying genetic cause of the disease by putting those cells back into the patient and allowing them to make copies of themselves to support the patient’s blood.”
Jennifer Doudna

Just because we are not ready for scientific progress does not mean it won’t happen.

My hope is that the technologies that I'm working on will really help cure diseases. — My **hope** is that the technologies that I’m working on will really help cure diseases.

“Ethics is not just something that people worry about and discuss; it’s actually something that needs to be integrated into the process of scientific discovery and technological development.”
Jennifer Doudna

A hypothesis is only the first step in any rigorous scientific process.

For every disease, we now have the ability to go in and think about how we might treat it or even cure it by changing the DNA.

5 Deep Jennifer Doudna Quotes that will Make You Think

“Thus, the distinction between ‘natural’ and ‘unnatural’ has been obscured. Red grapefruits created by neutron radiation, seedless watermelons produced with the chemical compound colchicine, apple orchards in which every tree is a perfect genetic clone of its neighbors—none of these aspects of modern agriculture is natural. Yet most of us eat these foods without complaint.”
Jennifer Doudna

The disjunction between scientific consensus and public opinion on the topic of GMOs is disturbing, to say the least.

I think that for a lot of women there's a subtle but unfortunately effective discouragement of women pursuing the STEM fields. — I think that for a lot of women there’s a subtle but unfortunately effective discouragement of women pursuing the STEM fields.

Is it more ethical to edit embryos or to screen a lot of embryos and throw them away I don't know the answer. — Is it more ethical to edit embryos or to screen a lot of embryos and throw them away? I don’t know the answer.

A full 8 percent of the human genome—over 250 million letters of DNA—is a remnant of ancient retroviruses that infected ancestors of our species millennia ago.

3 Jennifer Doudna Quotes About Life

I was kind of a nerdy, geeky type. And I loved math. People teased me about it. I felt pretty much like an outcast.

The idea that you would affect evolution is a very profound thing.

2 Jennifer Doudna Quotes on Our DNA

“This overall flow of genetic information—from DNA to RNA to protein—is known as the central dogma of molecular biology, and it is the language used to communicate and express life.”
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