By Then, I Was Making The Slow

Today, It Is Research With Human Embryonic Stem Cells And Attempts To Prepare Cloned Stem Cells For Research And Medical Therapies That Are Being Disavowed As Being Ethically Unacceptable.

Looking Back, I Realize That Nurturing Curiosity And The Instinct To Seek Solutions Are Perhaps The Most Important Contributions Education Can Make.

That Work Led To The Emergence Of The Recombinant Dna Technology Thereby Providing A Major Tool For Analyzing Mammalian Gene Structure And Function And Formed The Basis For Me Receiving The 1980 Nobel Prize In Chemistry.

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 Were Rampant.

But The Prospects Of Designing Chemical Plants For Industrial Scale Chemical Processes Seemed Far Less Interesting Than The Chemical Events That Occur In Biological Systems.