They represent about 30 percent of all proteins in the human genome, but they represent something like 70 percent of all targets for drugs. So they're particularly important for health-related research.

It's an extremely important time in science, this genomic revolution that's going on around us. Scientific groups are knocking out these genomes on a regular rate now and are really hitting their stride in their ability to do this quickly and relatively cheaply.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

Buy your fair-trade coffee beans by all means, but don't assume fair-trade principles govern the conditions of the men who fetch it to you. You would be mistaken.

Charge me with perjury and I will be on the next plane to the U.S. I'll face them in court. You cannot get clearer than that. It's put up or shut up.

I met him to try and bring about an end to sanctions, suffering and war, and on the second occasion, I met him to try and persuade him to allow Hans Blix and U.N. inspectors back into country.