Genome Quotes - Page 3

• Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.

  Sam Harris

  Brain, Influence, Economy

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• These days vampires gravitated toward particle accelerators, projects to decode the genome, and molecular biology. Once they had flocked to alchemy, anatomy, and electricity. If it went bang, involved blood, or promised to unlock the secrets of the universe, there was sure to be a vampire around.

  Deborah Harkness

  Blood, Secret, Vampire

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.26, Penguin

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• [Decoding the human genome sequence] is the most significant undertaking that we have mounted so far in an organized way in all of science. I believe that reading our blueprints, cataloguing our own instruction book, will be judged by history as more significant than even splitting the atom or going to the moon.

  Francis Collins

  Believe, Book, Reading

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• The big idea we start with is: "How is the genome interpreted, and how are stable decisions that affect gene expression inherited from one cell to the next?" This is one of the most competitive areas of molecular biology at the moment, and the students are reading papers that in some instances were published this past year. As a consequence, one of the most common answers I have to give to their questions is, "We just don't know."

  Shirley M. Tilghman

  Reading, Knowledge, Past

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• We have learned nothing from the genome.

  Craig Venter

  "'We Have Learned Nothing from the Genome'". Interview with Rafaela von Bredow and Johann Grolle, www.spiegel.de. July 29, 2010.

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• The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome. He can be worshipped in the cathedral or in the laboratory. His creation is majestic, awesome, intricate, and beautiful.

  Francis Collins

  Beautiful, Majestic, Creation

  "The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief". Book by Francis Collins, 2006.

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• 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 of medicine is going to be broadly genetic is a very real danger.

  John Dupre

  Real, Ideas, Medicine

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• Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.

  Adam Savage

  Beautiful, Fractals, Theory

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

  Craig Venter

  Motivation, Inspiration, Viruses

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• If I could get every single cancer genome sequence that has been sequenced; if I could ever put it in one repository, we have the capacity to do a million billion calculations per second. We'll be able to find out more in 10 minutes more than it would take 10 Nobel laureates 10 years to find out about the patterns of cancer and the cures for cancer.

  Joe Biden

  Cancer, Years, Patterns

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It used to be thought that only a certain kind of virus could get into our genome and it's called a retrovirus and that's a virus that might be HIV for example.

  Carl Zimmer

  Example, Viruses, Hiv

  Source: bigthink.com

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• If you're looking for your own idea of your own identity you know the human genome may not be the best place to look for it. You're just looking at a bunch of viruses.

  Carl Zimmer

  Ideas, Identity, Viruses

  Source: bigthink.com

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• 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 about 8.3% that's a virus. In other words we're probably about seven times more virus than we are human genes, which is kind of a weird way to thinking about yourself.

  Carl Zimmer

  Thinking About You, Stuff, Way

  Source: bigthink.com

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• One of the big challenges now is to figure out just how many viruses there really are in the human genome. So far the estimate is 8.3% of our genome is virus, but it actually could be a lot higher.

  Carl Zimmer

  Challenges, Viruses, Figures

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Emotion is set in our genome and that we all have with a certain programmed nature that is modified by our experience so individually we have variations on the pattern. But in essence, your emotion of joy and mine are going to be extremely similar.

  Antonio Damasio

  Essence, Joy, Variation

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Plasticity is an intrinsic property of the human brain and represents evolution's invention to enable the nervous system to escape the restrictions of its own genome and thus adapt to environmental pressures, physiologic changes, and experiences.

  Philippa Perry

  Brain, Environmental, Pressure

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I have had my genome fully sequenced and have learned a great deal about which medications I would respond to and which might or would induce major side effects, along with knowing many medical conditions for which I'm particularly susceptible.

  Eric Topol

  Knowing, Might, Sides

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• The human genome will not help us to understand the spiritual side of humankind, or to know who God is or what love is. The well-heeled couple who decide they want to use genetics to have a child that is a gifted musician may end up with a sullen adolescent who smokes marijuana and doesn't talk to them.

  Francis Collins

  Spiritual, Couple, Children

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• A lot of people think PMI is the genome project 2.0. No. This is about all the influences on disease - genetics is in there, but the environment is in there as well, health choices, behaviors, all the factors that are important, otherwise we're not doing what we promised we would do - which is in a holistic way look at how people stay healthy or how do they fall ill.

  Francis Collins

  Fall, Thinking, People

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I would like to do a series about sequencing the human genome, and also analyze more human diversity among other ethnic groups - a 'Faces of America 2.'

  Henry Louis Gates

  America, Diversity, Groups

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• I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who downloads the human genome in Egypt.

  Thomas Friedman

  Believe, Egypt, Years

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• If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.

  Peter Singer

  Book, Reading, Moon

  Peter Singer (2016). “Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter”, p.300, Princeton University Press

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• We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party.

  Lewis Thomas

  Party, Dna, Sea

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• We can't any longer have the conventional understanding of genetics which everybody peddles because it is increasingly obvious that epigenetics - actually things which influence the genome's function - are much more important than we realised.

  Robert Winston

  Understanding, Important, Influence

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