You can now modify the genes of large animals, and the largest animal we are concerned with is the human.

Whether you're religious or not, there is a real need for other people's religious positions to be treated with the upmost respect.

You can't be judgmental about babies. They are all have different needs. I was left with an enduring hatred of cheese because it was forced down me when I was young.

A young woman in her teens has about 300,000 eggs in her ovaries. By the time she is menopausal, none are left.

Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.

When I grew up, we didn't have a TV, and I think more families today have ambitions of getting out of their environment, such as sending their children to university.

We can't any longer have the conventional understanding of genetics which everybody peddles because it is increasingly obvious that epigenetics - actually things which influence the genome's function - are much more important than we realised.