Doudna Jennifer Quotes

#1. Understanding how Cas9 is able to locate specific 20-base-pair target sequences within genomes that are millions to billions of base pairs long may enable improvements to gene targeting and genome editing efforts in bacteria and other types of cells.

Jennifer Doudna

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

Jennifer Doudna

#3. In the past, when we've tried gene therapy, we haven't had tools that have allowed targeted gene correction.

Jennifer Doudna

#4. I've heard the women in the Refuge talk about how sensual it is when you feed from them."
Naasir shrugged. "Cooperative food is better than noncooperative food"
[ ... ]
"But the Refuge food is too cooperative," he grumbled. "How much blood do they think I can drink?

Nalini Singh

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

Jennifer Doudna

#6. I don't think of myself as a role model, but I can see that I am.

Jennifer Doudna

#7. 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

#8. I've always been absolutely appalling about the future, but I sort of think that was my childhood religion. We were future deniers. You did your best in the present, which was all around you.

Elizabeth McCracken

#9. One of the first jobs I ever had was opening clams in a seafood restaurant, so I'm pretty quick at it.

Tom Colicchio

#10. Believe that life is taking you down a wonderful path!

Lynn A. Robinson

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

Jennifer Doudna

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

Jennifer Doudna

#13. People get comfortable with technologies.

Jennifer Doudna

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

Jennifer Doudna

#15. 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.

Jennifer Doudna

#16. If you feel people getting on about what you are doing, it gives you a lift.

Robin Trower

#17. We found that CAS9 has the ability to make a double-stranded break in DNA at sites that are programmed by a small RNA molecule. What was so important was that we could really show how the CAS9 protein worked.

Jennifer Doudna

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

Jennifer Doudna

#19. As mechanistic biologists, we are hoping that by understanding how the virus works at the molecular level, we will be able to predict with more accuracy how it will evolve.

Jennifer Doudna