“Terrorism is not a public health threat, relative to cancer and heart ...” — George M. Church Quote

Terrorism is not a public health threat, relative to cancer and heart disease and malaria and so forth.

As part of our dedication to safety engineering in biology, we're trying to get better at creating physically contained test systems to develop something that eventually will be so biologically contained that we won't need physical containment anymore.

In my lab, we are constantly asking, 'What's the utility of this pure science that we're doing? Let's nudge it a little bit in a direction where people can connect to it and have some fun and/or help some very serious problems they have.'

We might want to figure out what are the positive effects of autism - mild cases.

One day, as I was speaking to another mother of a disabled child, I said our secret weapon against this disease is to do all we can without any expectation of results.

We've been tested by every force of nature, disease, and human frailty.

Is there something in my genetic makeup that makes me more at risk for heart disease? I believe there is. My father was the sign.

Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.

Parkinson's is described as a progressive idiopathic neurodegenerative disorder, a brain disease that will worsen with time for which no cause has as yet been identified.