When burned on a CD, the human genome is smaller than Microsoft Office. — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
“New analyses of the human genome establish that human evolution has been recent, copious and regional.” — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
“The decoding of the human genome tells us that we are indeed related to the animals, the insects, and the plants, and… — Ian McCallum Copy Share Image
“It’s not that I was categorically opposed to the idea of scientists and physicians using gene editing to introduce heritable changes into… — Jennifer A. Doudna 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
One of the big challenges now is to figure out just how many viruses there really are in the human genome. So… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
“What if we could somehow package the human genome in tiny capsules and send millions of them into space in hopes one… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
How did we cure polio, smallpox and send a man to the moon? How did we decode the human genome in just… — Margaret Cuomo 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
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
“In 1977, when Fred Sanger had sequenced the genome of the phiX virus, with 5,386 bases of DNA, that number represented the… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The human genome will not help us to understand the spiritual side of humankind, or to know who God is or what… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
“Well, the human genome has massive redundancy - that means that two per cent of the DNA does all the work of… — Ian McDonald Copy Share Image
As was predicted at the beginning of the Human Genome Project, getting the sequence will be the easy part as only technical… — Sydney Brenner 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
“The structure of the human genome can thus be likened to a sentence that reads- This…is the…str...uc…ture...,,,...of...your...(...gen...ome...)... - where the words correspond… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The involvement of clinicians, researchers, and, most importantly, the thousands of people who have donated DNA samples will help us to correlate… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
[Decoding the human genome sequence] is the most significant undertaking that we have mounted so far in an organized way in all… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
“Far from being a homogenous "Big Science," biotechnology is highly diversified and heterogeneous. "The" human genome is not a single database, but… — Eduardo Kac Copy Share Image
Ours is not a dumb species. We have put a man on the moon. We have unlocked the secrets of the human… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“It is encrusted with history. Embedded within it are peculiar fragments of DNA-some derived from ancient viruses-that were inserted into the genome… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“Science has discovered that, like any work of literature, the human genome is a text in need of commentary, for what Eliot… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“As the leader of the international Human Genome Project, which had labored mightily over more than a decade to reveal this DNA… — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
“Consider this: the human genome codes for about 1,500 different TFs, contains 4,000,000 TF-binding sites, and the average cell uses about 200,000… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary. — Iain McGilchrist 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
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
Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The convergence of information technology and biology allows scientists to translate the human genome into digital data that can accelerate diagnoses and… — Scott Gottlieb 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
If you're looking for your own idea of your own identity you know the human genome may not be the best place… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
Darwin talks about evolution, but he doesn't say how it started. Maybe the sense of mystery will dissolve in the face of… — Melvyn Bragg 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
As a Christian, but also as a scientist responsible for overseeing the Human Genome Project, one of my concerns has been the… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image