Following are excerpts from that conversation: Q. We hear a lot about how genetics is transforming medicine.

Now, it seems, he himself may help transform American medicine.

While American medical students have the most sophisticated equipment at their disposal, many feel those machines are transforming medicine into an impersonal business.

And so even the harshest critics of today's studies do not doubt that, some day, gene therapy will transform medicine.

Many expect that it will eventually transform medicine.

Managed care has transformed medicine in America, driving down costs but threatening to drive down quality as well.

But, they emphasize, they remain confident that gene therapy will eventually transform medicine.

But over the last five years, as managed care has transformed American medicine, the independence of doctors has often been the first thing to go.

Bioscience is already transforming modern medicine and we believe it can bring immense benefits to the energy sector.

But present day science has transformed war as well as industry, medicine, and ordinary life.