We have Borna virus genes. We're part Borna virus, which…

Borna virus is not a retrovirus. It doesn't actually insert its own genes into our cells. What it does is just hangs out near…

— Carl Zimmer

About 1.2% of the human genome is made up of genes, things that encode for proteins, the stuff that we consider us. There is…

— Carl Zimmer

It used to be thought that only a certain kind of virus could get into our genome and it's called a retrovirus and that's…

— Carl Zimmer

Viruses don't just make us sick. They can actually sometimes end up in our genomes.

— Carl Zimmer

If you're looking for your own idea of your own identity you know the human genome may not be the best place to look…

— Carl Zimmer

One of the big challenges now is to figure out just how many viruses there really are in the human genome. So far the…

— Carl Zimmer

Over millions of years the viruses in our genome mutate more and more so the look less and less and less recognizable as viruses…

— Carl Zimmer

Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery…

— Gary Wolf

“In other words, the more genomically complex the organism, the larger the percentage of the genome devoted to gene regulation by the environment.”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for…

— Samuel Wilson

By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.

— Barry Schuler

“Every new discovery about the genome is consistent with evolution having happened. Whether we find it appealing or not is another question, but personally…

— Richard Fortey

This is a whole new era where we're moving beyond little edits on single genes to being able to write whatever we want throughout…

— George M. Church

An important finding is that by determining the genome sequences of an entire family, one can identify many DNA sequencing errors and thus greatly…

— Leroy Hood

[Decoding the human genome sequence] is the most significant undertaking that we have mounted so far in an organized way in all of science.…

— Francis Collins