Evolution Quote by Jennifer A. Doudna

People think if you have deciphered the genome of humans that you can change everything. But you cannot change everything, because you do not…

— Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

“It’s not that I was categorically opposed to the idea of scientists and physicians using gene editing to introduce heritable changes into the human…

— Jennifer A. Doudna

“It is interesting to wonder whether taxonomists of the future may regret the way our generation messed around with genomes.”

— Richard Dawkins

Realizing the ways in which we humans may have been inadvertently changing our genes for millennia provides a way for us to begin to…

— Nicholas A. Christakis

“As I write this, organisms endowed with genomes are learning to change the heritable features of organisms endowed with genomes.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Now we have technology where we can modify the genomics of individuals by gene transfer and genetic meddling, we may find that people will…

— Robert Winston

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

Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I don't know,…

— Tony Blair

In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have doubled our life span since we were…

— Michio Kaku

Genomic science, as the newest frontier in scholarly research, is throwing open the door to a revolutionary way of approaching our health, the health…

— John Sharp

“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

I'm not keen on interfering with nature; I don't want to edit my genome.

— Jon Hopkins