It’s not that I was categorically opposed to the idea of scientists and physicians using gene editing to introduce heritable changes into the human genome.

in 2011, Rachel and I founded a company called Caribou Biosciences to commercialize the Cas proteins.

Editas Medicine has an exclusive multimillion-dollar license with Juno Therapeutics to develop T cell therapies

we founded Editas Medicine with $43 million in financing from three venture capital firms.

As we began discussing authorship of a white paper summarizing our conclusions, we debated who our target audience should be and what kind of outcome we were hoping to achieve.

have no doubt, this technology will — someday, somewhere — be used to change the genome of our own species in ways that are heritable, forever altering the genetic composition of human kind.

It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.

Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash.

The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.

If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.

I don't know what fire is made of - hell nobody does. All I know is that fire is awesome. I'm not a pyromaniac, but I am a pyroenthusiast.

As we sit here and idly chat, there are woman, female human beings, rolling around in strange beds with strange men, and we are making money from that.

Remember who you are. Don't compromise for anyone, for any reason. You are a child of the Almighty God. Live that truth.

Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.

I just am not good at math.

It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.