Genome Quotes - page 2

Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through generation after generation. From an evolutionary point of view, you and I are like the booster rockets designed to send the genetic payload into the next level of orbit and then drop off into the sea. (Harvey V. Fineberg)
An important finding is that by determining the genome sequences of an entire family, one can identify many DNA sequencing errors and thus greatly increase the accuracy of the data. This will ultimately help us understand the role of genetic variations in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. View quote
Leroy Hood
I'm fascinated with genetic science, and I have been for a very long time. I always look at science and technology because I think that the developments in my lifetime have been so remarkable - and we're only at the tip of the iceberg with projects like decoding the human genome. View quote
Nick Rhodes
While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require. View quote
Samuel Wilson
It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions. View quote
Samuel Wilson
One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions. View quote
Samuel Wilson
Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly. View quote
J. Philippe Rushton
I am saying to modern scientists and theologians: don't imagine that our latest ideas about the Big Bang or the human genome have solved the mysteries of the universe or the mysteries of life. Here are Bacon's words again: "The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding". View quote
Freeman Dyson
It may come as a surprise to many people that the human genome contains human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) that are linked to cancer, autoimmune diseases, multiple sclerosis, schizophrenia, and more. Gene editing offers a new hope to eradicating many deadly hereditary diseases. View quote
Newton Lee
If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library. View quote
Peter Singer
Heritability pertains to the entirety of the genome, not to a single gene. (Steven Pinker)
Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy. View quote
Sam Harris
Genome design is going to be a key part of the future. That's why we need fast, cheap, accurate DNA synthesis, so you can make a lot of iterations of something and test them. View quote
Craig Venter
It appears that the human genome does indeed contain deserts, or large, gene-poor regions. View quote
Craig Venter
We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party. View quote
Lewis Thomas
As a Christian, but also as a scientist responsible for overseeing the Human Genome Project, one of my concerns has been the limits on applications of our understanding of the genome. Should there be limits? I think there should. I think the public has expressed their concern about ways this information might be misused. View quote
Francis Collins
Cancer is a disease of the genome. And that's what happens. You make mistakes in a cell somewhere in your body that causes it to start to grow when it should've stopped, and that's cancer. And those mistakes are mistakes of DNA. View quote
Francis Collins
Genome sequencing has changed taxonomy. View quote
Richard Dawkins
One of the most important presuppositions of Darwin's entire thesis is gradualism, the idea that mutations to the genome can cause minor variations in the organism's properties, which can be accumulated piecemeal, bit by bit, over the eons to create the complex order found in the organisms we observe. View quote
Stuart Kauffman
Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system. View quote
Bill Gates
Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart-the mutations that make us the sort of creature that could wipe out its nearest relative, then dig up its bones and reassemble its genome. (Elizabeth Kolbert)
I would like to do a series about sequencing the human genome, and also analyze more human diversity among other ethnic groups - a 'Faces of America 2.' View quote
Henry Louis Gates
I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced. View quote
James D. Watson
The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease. View quote
James D. Watson
I am thrilled to see my genome. View quote
James D. Watson