Quote by Siddhartha Mukherjee

“The people who wrote viruses knew they had to stay one step ahead; they developed ways to make their viruses more difficult to detect.”

— Peter H. Gregory

“our cells contain an epigenome that tells genes to switch on or off.”

— Deborah Kesten

“epigenetic marks are the remote control not only to your health and longevity but also to how you pass your genes on to future…

— David Perlmutter

We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.

— Walter Gilbert

In the earlier years when I started this project at Stanford University, everyone told me it was nuts to go and try to reproduce…

— James Rothman

“Working independently, Baltimore and Temin discovered an enzyme found in retroviruses that could build DNA from an RNA template. They called the enzyme reverse…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“strange evolution, that people have come to believe that we are its greatest achievement when really we're just a collection of cells overrating themselves”

— Dave Matthews Band

Borna virus is not a retrovirus. It doesn't actually insert its own genes into our cells. What it does is just hangs out near…

— Carl Zimmer

That's the new way - with computers, computers, computers. That's the way we can have the cell survive and get some new information in…

— Lennart Nilsson

“You could make iPS cells by introducing just four genes into a differentiated cell.”

— Nessa Carey

“How can one capture genes that behave like ghosts," Weinberg wrote, "influencing cells from behind some dark curtain?”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

With DNA, you have to be able to tell which genes are turned on or off. Current DNA sequencing cannot do that. The next…

— Elon Musk