John Sulston
John Sulston
Sir John Edward Sulston FRSis a British biologist. For his work on the cell lineage and genome of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, he was jointly awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sydney Brenner and Robert Horvitz. As of 2014 he is Chair of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the University of Manchester...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth27 March 1942
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When it came to choice of subjects, science was obvious - since I was uninterested in anything else - but a decision that caused consternation in some eyes was my demand to take biology for A-level.
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I'm pleased that some economists and sociologists are beginning to talk about, for example, alternative measures of human well-being - alternative, that is, to GDP, on which the world runs.
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The Wellcome Trust is a hugely important organisation, and it is vital that its fundraising continues unabated.
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On my mother's side, I come from Midlands engineers and, on my father's, from tenant farmers near Oxford.
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In order to protect the market value of a proprietary database, the owner must prohibit redistribution of the contents - otherwise, the information would quickly leak out and be widely known.
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We can choose to address the twin issues of population and consumption to rebalance the use of resources to a more egalitarian pattern of consumption.
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