Biology Quote by Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Every genetic “illness” is a mismatch between an organism’s genome and its environment. In some cases, the appropriate medical intervention to mitigate a disease…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

A person's health isn't generally a reflection of genes, but how their environment is influencing them. Genes are the direct cause of less than…

— Bruce Lipton

“Genes determine our risk for a disease, but our lifestyle and environment can either trigger or suppress those risks.”

— John J. Ratey

All of our health is basically genetics.

— Frank Langella

“In this work against sickness, we begin not with genetic or cellular interactions, but with human ones. They are what make medicine so complex…

— Atul Gawande

Environment, not genes, plays starring role in human immune variation.

— Anonymous

“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

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

We are all predisposed to disease if we mismanage our genes.

— Mark Sisson

“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

“our own. It is critical not to feel obliged to inherit something that doesn’t belong to us. Or to misread the bond with our…

— Judith Orloff

“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