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Science 22 December 2000:
Vol. 290. no. 5500, p. 2249
DOI: 10.1126/science.290.5500.2249d
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As a result of genome mapping, "we will be able to increase the complexity of our ... DNA without having to wait for the slow process of biological evolution. It is likely that we will be able to completely redesign [the human genome] in the next 1000 [years]."

--Physicist Stephen Hawking, addressing the eyeforpharma 2000 meeting in Basel, Switzerland, last month.

"The real goal is to keep people alive forever."

--William Haseltine, head of Human Genome Sciences in Rockville, Maryland, at a conference in Washington, D.C., on 4 December, marking the creation of the Society of Regenerative Medicine to promote research on "the human body's natural ability to build, repair and maintain itself."

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