But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer..

Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of the concerns that….

But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occu….

Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being dis….

That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function a….

Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionar….

By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act a….

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make..

With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery..

Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship betwee….

Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them we….