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"The stomach was considered an acid waste pit. It would burn you if you stuck your finger in something that strong.'' —David Relman, MD, associate professor of medicine and of microbiology and immunology, discussing his lab's recent study that found 128 different types of bacteria in the human stomach. San Jose Mercury News, Jan. 3, 2006. http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/13538042.htm (registration required)
"I have long suspected that the insidious rise of publication costs and fierce competition among journals may have contributed a hospitable environment for fraud." —Spyros Andreopoulos, director emeritus of the Office of Communication & Public Affairs, in his op-ed on the need for scientific journals to tighten up requirements for study authors as a result of the South Korean stem cell controversy. San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 3, 2006. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/01/03/EDG2IGCOIT1.DTL
"I think the world is going to step up and fill in the gaps." —Christopher Scott, director of the Program on Stem Cells and Society in the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, on the repercussions of the U.S. policies restricting stem cell research. U.S. News & World Report, Jan. 3, 2006. http://www.usnews.com/usnews/health/articles/060103/3book.htm
"I am an eternal optimist." —Yasodha Natkunam, MD, assistant professor of pathology, on the efforts to bring the latest medical technology to her homeland of Sri Lanka one year after the tsunami. San Jose Mercury News, Dec. 24, 2005 http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/living/health/13479882.htm
"I thought, 'You want to do what?'" —Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, on his first reaction to Stanford medical students' ultimately successful legislative proposal to let pharmacies distribute previously sold, unopened prescription drugs to low-income patients. Sacramento Bee, Dec. 27, 2005 http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/14019284p-14851895c.html (registration required)