About Quote by Nicholas A. Christakis

We’re still getting a lot of the popular conception that’s grounded in the one-way, causal image of the genome. The idea that the future…

— 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

Genes are mysterious things, still unpredictable after all of our research, flecks of humanity that can destroy lives but, just as often, can teach…

— Monica Hesse

“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

“have no doubt, this technology will — someday, somewhere — be used to change the genome of our own species in ways that are…

— Jennifer A. Doudna

As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.

— Gary Hamel

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

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

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

“The gene provides an organizing principle for modern biology—and it tantalizes us with the prospect of controlling our bodies and fates.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

It is difficult to imagine a greater imposition than adding genes to future generations that changes the nature of future people.

— Ian Wilmut

We are born to be ourselves-in need of upgrading the gene-to look back again and again and befriend the person we once intended to…

— Joan Anderson