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.
When I discover something about the human genome, I experience a sense of awe at the mystery of life, and say to myself, 'Wow, only God knew before. ' It is a profoundly beautiful and moving sensation, which helps me appreciate God and makes science even more rewarding for me.
I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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.
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.
Heritability pertains to the entirety of the genome, not to a single gene.
To give us room to explore the varieties of mind and body into which our genome can evolve, one planet is not enough.
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.
We have learned nothing from the genome.
Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.
Living in your genome is the history of our species.
I am thrilled to see my genome.
Any virus that's been sequenced today - that genome can be made.
This is a whole new era where we're moving beyond little edits on single genes to being able to write whatever we want throughout the genome. The goal is to be able to change it as radically as our understanding permits.
The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.
I think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome.
[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.
Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.
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.
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.
