People think if you have deciphered the genome of humans that you can change everything. But you cannot change everything, because you… — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Copy Share Image
Plasticity is an intrinsic property of the human brain and represents evolution's invention to enable the nervous system to escape the restrictions… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA could influence the study of genetics… — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the late 1970s, when I was a professor at Caltech, I pioneered four instruments for analyzing genes and proteins that revolutionized… — Leroy Hood Copy Share Image
It used to be thought that only a certain kind of virus could get into our genome and it's called a retrovirus… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that… — J. Philippe Rushton Copy Share Image
One of the good things about the public Human Genome Project is that the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
I would only once have the opportunity to let my scientific career encompass a path from the double helix to the three… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
About 1.2% of the human genome is made up of genes, things that encode for proteins, the stuff that we consider us.… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through generation after generation. From an evolutionary… — Harvey V. Fineberg Copy Share Image
By comparing the human and chimp genomes, we can see the process of evolution clearly in the changes (in DNA) since we… — Bob Waterston Copy Share Image
If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Contemporary philosophers are facing problems that were unthinkable only one century ago, such as whether space and time are mutually Independent, whether… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
When we look at chimpanzees . . . we get this extremely fine-grained view of evolution, and as a result we understand… — Bob Waterston Copy Share Image
We can't any longer have the conventional understanding of genetics which everybody peddles because it is increasingly obvious that epigenetics - actually… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
If we were able to put every single solitary cancer cell that has a genomic - had their genome done in one… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better… — Samuel Wilson Copy Share Image
Consider: The human genome consists of about 3.3 billion base pairs. Since there are only four types of pair, that amounts to… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
We share half our genes with the banana. [After the announcement Jun 2000 that a working draft of the genetic sequence of… — Robert May, Baron May of Oxford Copy Share Image
We are here to celebrate the completion of the first survey of the entire human genome. Without a doubt, this is the… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“I am suggesting here that organisms have a built-I capability of adapting to their environment. I am suggesting that to the extent… — Lee Spetner Copy Share Image
