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Medical engineering is one of the areas in which the traditional 'silo' structures of university disciplines have not encouraged collaboration.

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Distributed ledger technologies have the potential to help governments to collect taxes, deliver benefits, issue passports, record land registries, assure the supply chain of goods, and generally ensure the integrity of government records and services.

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It was and has been one of the major interventions in public health, and it's absolutely vital that people vaccinate their children.

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When the correct tests are done, GM products are as safe as their non-GM counterparts.

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Science can tell us what can be done in principle, but it is then a matter for public debate as to what should be done. And ultimately, it is a role for politicians to decide the answers.

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The European Parliament must send a clear sign that it recognises the importance of embryonic stem cell research.

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People go on exploration; they're trying to find places that weren't known before. But it is an inevitable fact of research, as is in any other form of exploration of the unknown, that some people find they go down a dead end.

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We do some experiments in humans, some in mice, and there are some questions that can only be answered in nonhuman primates. It's true that you can't immediately say that those experiments will translate into human health, but nevertheless, it is obvious that having an understanding of human memory is going to be important for human health.

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I was always taught at medical school that you should never do a test unless you could do something with the result.

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The question is, are there useful things that we can do with the results of a genome sequence that would bring benefit? And the answer is, today, should the majority of people go and have their genome sequenced? Probably not. But are there particular circumstances in which genome sequencing is really helpful? Yes, there are.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Scientist

Born: January 25th, 1953

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