Dna Quote by Christian Cantrell

“Most people think of viruses as parasites, but they aren't parasites at all. An organism has to be considered alive to be classified as…

— Christian Cantrell

A virus is not just DNA; a virus is also packaged up, covered over with a series of proteins in a nice, elegant, well-compacted…

— Francis Collins

“A “better” biological virus — like a computer virus — will perhaps just make its host sick, but still well enough to keep spreading the virus”

— Peter H. Gregory

It is, I believe, justifiable to make the generalization that anything an organic chemist can synthesize can be made without him. All he does…

— Anonymous

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

— Carl Zimmer

A virus has three purposes: to duplicate, to infiltrate and to spread from one host to the next. Ultimately, even a single virus can…

— Wayne Dyer

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

— Craig Venter

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

“When a virus enters a cell, it sheds its coat, and begins to use the cell as a factory to copy its genes, and…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

At long last, we may be returning to the original two-sided sense of the word virus, which originally signified either a life-giving substance or…

— Carl Zimmer

When it comes to taking genes from viruses and bacteria and putting them into plants, people say 'Yuck! Why would scientists do that?' Because…

— Pamela Ronald

The reason that viruses are so hard to fight, the reason for example we need a flu virus every year is that they evolve…

— Carl Zimmer