Consider this: the human genome codes for about 1,500…

Early experience shapes the structure and function of the brain. This reveals the fundamental way in which gene expression is determined by experience.

— Daniel J. Siegel

The big idea we start with is: "How is the genome interpreted, and how are stable decisions that affect gene expression inherited from one…

— Shirley M. Tilghman

The study of how substances alter gene expression is part of the field of epigenetics. Some chemical exposures appear to turn on and turn…

— Sandra Steingraber

The environment can actually affect gene expression.

— Michael Marmot

[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

“It’s not that I was categorically opposed to the idea of scientists and physicians using gene editing to introduce heritable changes into the human…

— Jennifer A. Doudna

“In 1977, when Fred Sanger had sequenced the genome of the phiX virus, with 5,386 bases of DNA, that number represented the outer limit…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Darwin talks about evolution, but he doesn't say how it started. Maybe the sense of mystery will dissolve in the face of science, but…

— Melvyn Bragg

“The decoding of the human genome tells us that we are indeed related to the animals, the insects, and the plants, and that, like…

— Ian McCallum

Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.

— Bill Gates

“What if we could somehow package the human genome in tiny capsules and send millions of them into space in hopes one might take…

— Dan Brown

The involvement of clinicians, researchers, and, most importantly, the thousands of people who have donated DNA samples will help us to correlate genetic variation…

— Mark Walport

How did we cure polio, smallpox and send a man to the moon? How did we decode the human genome in just 13 years?…

— Margaret Cuomo

“Science has discovered that, like any work of literature, the human genome is a text in need of commentary, for what Eliot said of…

— Jonah Lehrer

“As the leader of the international Human Genome Project, which had labored mightily over more than a decade to reveal this DNA sequence, I…

— Francis S. Collins