Quotes About Genetics

He no longer has any doubt that he will pass along what the billions—trillions!—of archaea have installed within him.

Parents pass their genes vertically to their offspring.

Other mysteries have been untangled. Redheads are known to feel pain especially acutely. This confused researchers until someone realized that the same genetic mutation that causes red hair also increases sensitivity to pain. One study found that redheaded patients require about 20 percent more general anesthesia than brunettes.

People can take away your assets, but not your DNA.

Many people thought that, given my knowledge of the egg, I should analyse embryonic mutants.

I am 3.8 percent Neanderthal. One of my ancestors mated with a Neanderthal, and I am not embarrassed by that.

CRISPR editing will allow us to enhance ourselves.

Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.

We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.

Is it more ethical to edit embryos or to screen a lot of embryos and throw them away? I don't know the answer.

It's hard to reach [the age of] 100. We're not programmed for longevity. We are programmed for something called procreative success.

Five years and 250 mice later, she concluded that the sixty-fifth attempt was her keeper, with the best combination of Down-like qualities, even including, incredibly, some of the distinctive facial characteristics associated with the disease, and the same slightly uncoordinated gait.

all of us experience the day in three stages—a peak, a trough, and a rebound. And about three-quarters of us (larks and third birds) experience it in that order. But about one in four people, those whose genes or age make them night owls, experience the day in something closer to the reverse order—recovery, trough, peak.

The rate of brain maturation is largely influenced by the genes we inherit.

parenting matters, even to the extent of influencing our inborn and genetically shaped temperament.

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

There is more and more data indicating that there is a biological basis to your political views.

The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.

Different viral species contain nucleic acids that differ not only in length and nucleotide sequence but in many unexpected ways as well.

We know virtually all of the genes known to mammals. We do not know all of the combinations.

A virus is not just DNA; a virus is also packaged up, covered over with a series of proteins in a nice, elegant, well-compacted form.

With the absence of a flu vaccination last year, I did not take a flu shot; but there is still some immunity that carries over from year to year; but about every 30 years, there is a major change in the genetics of the flu virus.

Virus particles contain single molecules of nucleic acid.

It seems likely that most if not all the genetic information in any organism is carried by nucleic acid - usually by DNA, although certain small viruses use RNA as their genetic material.