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Genome sequencing has changed taxonomy. -- Richard Dawkins
Genome design is going to be a key part of the future. That's why we need fast, cheap, accurate DNA synthesis, so you can make a lot of iterations of something and test them. -- Craig Venter
Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that's quality software! -- Bjarne Stroustrup
One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions. -- Samuel Wilson
It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions. -- Samuel Wilson
Genome-based treatment, based on wider and cheaper availability of genome data, will provide new ways to customize the therapeutic protocol and enhance our control over diseases and medical treatment. -- Nayef Al-Rodhan
We share half our genes with the banana. [After the announcement Jun 2000 that a working draft of the genetic sequence of humans had been completed by the Human Genome Project.] -- Robert May, Baron May of Oxford
During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA could influence the study of genetics and I was an early and active proponent of the Human Genome Sequencing Project. -- Sydney Brenner
While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require. -- Samuel Wilson
In the late 1970s, when I was a professor at Caltech, I pioneered four instruments for analyzing genes and proteins that revolutionized modern biology - and one of these, the automated DNA sequencer, enabled the Human Genome Project. -- Leroy Hood
One of the good things about the public Human Genome Project is that the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health spent a part of their budget on the ethical, legal, and social implications of their research. -- Juan Enriquez
It's terrifying the way molecular biology has become more and more jargon ridden. But I strongly believe that my book can be read by the intelligent layman. I want everyone who bought a copy of 'A Brief History of Time' to buy a copy of 'Genome'. -- Matt Ridley
I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced. -- James D. Watson
It appears that the human genome does indeed contain deserts, or large, gene-poor regions. -- Craig Venter
Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system. -- Bill Gates
By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware. -- Barry Schuler
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
Your genome sequence will become a vital part of your medical record, thereby providing critical information about how to optimize your wellness. -- Leroy Hood
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
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
I would only once have the opportunity to let my scientific career encompass a path from the double helix to the three billion steps of the human genome. -- James D. Watson
The food we eat goes beyond its macronutrients of carbohydrates, fat and protein. It's information. It interacts with and instructs our genome with every mouthful, changing genetic expression. -- David Perlmutter
Each part of our genome is unique. We would not be alive if there was not a single mathematical solution for our chromosomes. We would just be scrambled goo. -- Craig Venter
From the growth of the Internet through to the mapping of the human genome and our understanding of the human brain, the more we understand, the more there seems to be for us to explore. -- Martin Rees
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
The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don't understand. -- Thomas R. Cech
People think genes are an absolute cause of traits. But the notion that the genome is the blueprint for humanity is a very bad metaphor. If you think we're hard-wired and deterministic, there should indeed be a lot more genes. -- Craig Venter
Cancer is a disease of the genome. And that's what happens. You make mistakes in a cell somewhere in your body that causes it to start to grow when it should've stopped, and that's cancer. And those mistakes are mistakes of DNA. -- Francis Collins
Since my own genome was sequenced, my software has been broadcast into space in the form of electromagnetic waves, carrying my genetic information far beyond Earth. Whether there is any creature out there capable of making sense of the instructions in my genome, well, that's another question. -- Craig Venter
An important finding is that by determining the genome sequences of an entire family, one can identify many DNA sequencing errors and thus greatly increase the accuracy of the data. This will ultimately help us understand the role of genetic variations in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. -- Leroy Hood
The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease. -- James D. Watson
We have 200 trillion cells, and the outcome of each of them is almost 100 percent genetically determined. And that's what our experiment with the first synthetic genome proves, at least in the case of really simple bacteria. It's the interactions of all those separate genetic units that give us the physiology that we see. -- Craig Venter
As a Christian, but also as a scientist responsible for overseeing the Human Genome Project, one of my concerns has been the limits on applications of our understanding of the genome. Should there be limits? I think there should. I think the public has expressed their concern about ways this information might be misused. -- Francis Collins
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
The brain is the most complicated organ in the universe. We have learned a lot about other human organs. We know how the heart pumps and how the kidney does what it does. To a certain degree, we have read the letters of the human genome. But the brain has 100 billion neurons. Each one of those has about 10,000 connections. -- Francis Collins
It will be the mother of all telescopes, and you can bet it will do for astronomy what genome sequencing is doing for biology. The clumsy, if utilitarian, name of this mirrored monster is Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, or LSST. You can't use it yet, but a peak in the Chilean Andes has been decapitated to provide a level spot for placement. -- Seth Shostak
I am thrilled to see my genome. -- James D. Watson
We have learned nothing from the genome. -- Craig Venter
Living in your genome is the history of our species. -- Barry Schuler
Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs. -- Adam Savage
Any virus that's been sequenced today - that genome can be made. -- Craig Venter
Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do. -- W. Daniel Hillis
Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do. -- W. Daniel Hillis
When burned on a CD, the human genome is smaller than Microsoft Office. -- Steve Jurvetson
Heritability pertains to the entirety of the genome, not to a single gene. -- Steven Pinker
The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years. -- Matt Ridley
I think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome. -- Francis Collins
To give us room to explore the varieties of mind and body into which our genome can evolve, one planet is not enough. -- Freeman Dyson
Parts of our genome simply cannot survive a situation where the environment suffers from the full overload of toxins we currently live in. -- Kat Lahr
One of the central mysteries of biology is why the genome is largely identical from cell to cell, even though cells do different things. -- Erez Lieberman Aiden
If you go far enough back, your genome connects you with bacteria, butterflies, and barracuda - the great chain of being linked together through DNA. -- Spencer Wells
If you go far enough back, your genome connects you with bacteria, butterflies, and barracuda - the great chain of being linked together through DNA." -- Spencer Wells
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
The very genetic determinism I posited in World's End as a way of shaking off my inherited demons is being proven in fact as we map out the human genome. -- T.C. Boyle
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
We're collecting about 100,000 telomere lengths in saliva samples and then looking at how those relate to both the extensive longitudinal clinical records that Kaiser is collecting and the genome sequence variations. -- Elizabeth Blackburn
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
We are here to celebrate the completion of the first survey of the entire human genome. Without a doubt, this is the most important, most wondrous map ever produced by human kind. -- William J. Clinton
When we look at chimpanzees . . . we get this extremely fine-grained view of evolution, and as a result we understand a lot more about the processes that are changing our own genome over time. -- Bob Waterston
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
Knowing what your parents have gives you hints of things, but your genome is a totally unique combination of and interchange of DNA from your parents. There is no one else like you genetically. -- Craig Venter

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