Conception Quote by John Dupre

“The increasing fascination with and funding of genetic technology is simply another medical dead end, another reductionist rabbit hole that will lead us no…

— T. Colin Campbell

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

But I believe that the huge advances now being made in genetic research will be the key to personalized medicine one day.

— Sean Hepburn Ferrer

Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery…

— Gary Wolf

“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

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

The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns…

— Anonymous

Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading.…

— Jack Horner

I see worries in the fact that we have the power to manipulate genes in ways that would be improbable or impossible through conventional…

— Colin Blakemore

Just as computer technology and the Internet created whole new industries and extraordinary benefits for people that extend into almost every realm of human…

— Anne Wojcicki

“the popular conception of the gene as a simple causal agent is not valid. The idea that there is a gene for adventurousness, heart…

— Eva Jablonka

Anybody that thought the genome was going to directly provide drugs was a fool. Biological networks are not simple, and making drugs to affect…

— Leroy Hood