David Baltimore Quotes

• I think they are looking for publicity and they are looking for a name for themselves.

  David Baltimore

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• When we talk about stem cells, we are actually talking about a complicated series of things, including adult stem cells which are largely cells devoted to replacing individual tissues like blood elements or liver or even the brain.

  David Baltimore

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Tissues, Brain, Cell

• I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born.

  David Baltimore

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  Tags in Nuclear, Cloning, Danger

• There is actually a fair amount of money being put behind science today.

  David Baltimore

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Fair

• The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning.

  David Baltimore

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  Tags in Cloning, Reproductive, Slope, Argument

• When are we going to say cancer is cured? I’m not sure when that will happen, if that will happen because cancer is a very slippery disease and it involves a vast number of cells in the body and those cells are continually mutating.

  David Baltimore

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Cured, Slippery, Cancer, Disease

• What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What’s its importance? We know the answer to that for a very small number of genes, the ones that made themselves evident many years ago.

  David Baltimore

  Tags in Genes

• There are lots of other issues in policy including the stem cell issue.

  David Baltimore

  Tags in Cell

David Baltimore (8)

Birth:	7th March, 1938
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Biologist, Professor

About

David Baltimore was born in New York City, New York. He is an American biologist, and 1975 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine. He served as president of the California Institute of Technology from 1997 to 2006, and is currently the President Emeritus and Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Biology at Caltech. Dr. Baltimore has profoundly influenced international science, including key contributions to immunology, virology, cancer research, biotechnology, and recombinant DNA research, through his accomplishments as a researcher, administrator, educator, and public advocate for science and engineering. He earned a BA at Swarthmore College in 1960, having switched from biology to chemistry. He received his Ph.D. from Rockefeller University in 1964.

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