Years ago Quote by Barbara McClintock

Years ago I began to realize that any genome can make any other, practically.

— Barbara McClintock 1980

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

I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.

— James D. Watson

It once seemed that the most profound feats stemming from DNA-based science would spring from our ability to read and detect genes, which we…

— Scott Gottlieb

If you can write DNA, you're no longer limited to 'what is' but to what you could make.

— Drew Endy

The genome was once thought to be just the blueprint for a living organism, like a combination of the architect's plan for a building…

— Iain McGilchrist

“have no doubt, this technology will — someday, somewhere — be used to change the genome of our own species in ways that are…

— Jennifer A. Doudna

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.

— Henry Louis Gates

Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we…

— James D. Watson

“If one wished to speak provocatively, one could say that individuals created from such proofread genomes might be “more human” than anybody currently alive,…

— Nick Bostrom

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…

— Craig Venter

“We are survival machines-robot vehicles blindly programmer to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with…

— Richard Dawkins