Bases Quote by Olympia Snowe

“As we’re about to see, by striving for even greater genetic perfection we might be eliminating a lot more than just millions of people…

— Sharon Moalem

“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

“but perhaps within the next five to ten years, certain inborn errors . . . will be treated or cured by the administration of a certain gene…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“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

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

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

Ultimately, we'll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there…

— James D. Watson

“Thus, for our purposes, genes aren’t about inevitability. Instead they’re about context-dependent tendencies, propensities, potentials, and vulnerabilities. All embedded in the fabric of the…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

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

A solid foundation in genetics is increasingly important for everyone.

— Anne Wojcicki

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

“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