Courtesy of Denis Duboule
It overrode everything else. It's a little bit of a problem now; it's all or nothing. It's something you are always thinking about, even when climbing a mountain, or swimming with children in the sea.
I have stopped playing tennis, stopped playing music, but I ride a bike; it's also obsessional. I race against myself. It may have something to do with reaching 50. [He's 49] You have to show yourself that you can still do things.
I snowboard. I am the oldest one on the slope, I'm afraid. I met a teenager in the cable car and he looked at me and said, "Wow, it's great to see someone your age still doing this." I thought, 'Wait until it happens to you.'
Yes, with Karl Illmensee; he was the first one to have claimed to clone a mouse, in the 1980s. There was some discussion ...