About yourself Quote by 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

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

— Carl Zimmer

We have Borna virus genes. We're part Borna virus, which is weird, but apparently our cells and our genomes in a weird way might…

— Carl Zimmer

Any virus that's been sequenced today - that genome can be made.

— Craig Venter

“Well, the human genome has massive redundancy - that means that two per cent of the DNA does all the work of instructing the…

— Ian McDonald

“It is encrusted with history. Embedded within it are peculiar fragments of DNA-some derived from ancient viruses-that were inserted into the genome in the…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

You're one of 6.5 billion people now on the planet, and 99.9 percent of your genes are the same as everyone else's.

— David Shields

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

“In our own genetic profile, believe it or not, scientific evidence indicates that we humans share 99.4% of our total DNA sequences with the chimpanzee.”

— Jill Bolte Taylor

We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one…

— Barry Schuler

The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.

— E. O. Wilson

Humanity is a virus.

— Genesis P-Orridge