Quote by Siddhartha Mukherjee

One of the big challenges now is to figure out just how many viruses there really are in the human genome. So far the…

— Carl Zimmer

Any virus that's been sequenced today - that genome can be made.

— Craig Venter

A DNA sequence for the genome of bacteriophage ΦX174 of approximately 5,375 nucleotides has been determined using the rapid and simple 'plus and minus'…

— Frederick Sanger

About 1.2% of the human genome is made up of genes, things that encode for proteins, the stuff that we consider us. There is…

— Carl Zimmer

We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.

— Iain McGilchrist

The Human Genome Project has given us a genetic parts list.

— Leroy Hood

“In our own genetic profile, believe it or not, scientific evidence indicates that we humans share 99.4% of our total DNA sequences with the chimpanzee.”

— Jill Bolte Taylor

Three billion bases of DNA sequence can be put on a single compact disc and one will be able to pull a CD out…

— Walter Gilbert

In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We…

— Walter Gilbert

“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

The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.

— E. O. Wilson

“Consider this: the human genome codes for about 1,500 different TFs, contains 4,000,000 TF-binding sites, and the average cell uses about 200,000 such sites…

— Robert M. Sapolsky