Leroy Hood Quotes

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Leroy Hood

Profession : Scientist

Birth : October 10, 1938

Medicine will be personalized and preventive: Your genome might predict that you have an 80 percent chance of breast cancer by the time you are 50, but if you take a preventive drug starting when you are 40, the chance will drop to 2 percent.

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If you know the mother's genome and the father's genome, and you see that the children have some genes that neither parent has, then you know that difference is either a mutation or a processing error.

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Each form of Alzheimer's disease should perturb different brain networks and so influence the concentration of different proteins that can be measured in the blood.

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I have good genes, and I also do lots of exercises.

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I didn't want my genome to be sequenced by any of the companies that were out there doing the partial sequences just from the point of view of commercialisation.

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My own view about knowledge is we're always better to have knowledge.

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We are evolutionary descendents of this marvellous panoply of life. And what that says unequivocally is we have an utter total obligation to make sure we have an environment that not only is good for us but is good for all living organisms.

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I think the real problem is it's easy to persuade young kids of particular kinds of ideas, because they are flexible.

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My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful.

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In the late 1970s, when I was a professor at Caltech, I pioneered four instruments for analyzing genes and proteins that revolutionized modern biology - and one of these, the automated DNA sequencer, enabled the Human Genome Project.

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Many nonprofits rely on grants alone.

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Don't listen to the prevailing majority points of view. If you have new ideas, push them.

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If you go to the FDA with a drug that's only meant to treat 50 people, and it's a 95 percent cure rate, you'll get your drug approved.

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In the end, what counts is what you do.

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Cloning interferon was not something I wanted to get into.

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I already get 10 job offers a year, which is more than I can handle anyway.

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All of the details that most of us memorize in medical school - you don't have to learn those things. They're going to be in your computer.

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What you need to learn how to do is analyze situations and do differential diagnoses and understand the principle and the concepts rather than learn all the details, and medical school doesn't begin to do that.

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