Quote by Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Sixty years on, we know that HGT is one of the most profound aspects of bacterial life. It allows bacteria to evolve at blistering…

— Ed Yong

“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

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

CRISPR-enabled 'gene drives' enable us to make changes to the germ-line of organisms permanent such that changes spread through the entire wild population, including…

— Dominic Cummings

“bacteria are infinitely more versatile than we are. They are metabolic wizards that can digest everything from uranium to crude oil. They are expert…

— Ed Yong

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

If you look on the fungal genome as being soldier candidates protecting the U.S. as our host defense, not only for the ecosystem but…

— Paul Stamets

It once seemed that the most profound feats stemming from DNA-based science would spring from our ability to read and detect genes, which we…

— Scott Gottlieb

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

“This is a miracle of coevolution—the bacteria that coexist with us in our bodies enable us to exist. Microbiologist Michael Wilson notes that “each…

— Sandor Ellix Katz

“It is encrusted with history. Embedded within it are peculiar fragments of DNA-some derived from ancient viruses-that were inserted into the genome in the…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Solutions to all biological problems are greatly advanced by the sequencing work and the new tools that are created.

— Bill Gates