Being the best Quote by Carl Zimmer

About 1.2% of the human genome is made up of genes, things that encode for proteins, the stuff that we consider us. There is…

— 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

Over millions of years the viruses in our genome mutate more and more so the look less and less and less recognizable as viruses…

— Carl Zimmer

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

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

As was predicted at the beginning of the Human Genome Project, getting the sequence will be the easy part as only technical issues are…

— Sydney Brenner

The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.

— Iain McGilchrist

When burned on a CD, the human genome is smaller than Microsoft Office.

— Steve Jurvetson

As a Christian, but also as a scientist responsible for overseeing the Human Genome Project, one of my concerns has been the limits on…

— Francis Collins

The convergence of information technology and biology allows scientists to translate the human genome into digital data that can accelerate diagnoses and cures.

— Scott Gottlieb

“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