Genome Quotes

With the completion of the human genome, and the numerous recent discoveries in molecular and cell biology, exciting new approaches to diagnose and treat diseases are rapidly being investigated. - Mark Kelley

Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection? - Steven Pinker

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. - Robert Waterston

When the human genome was sequenced, I think that--not unreasonably--the press and some of the scientists themselves gave the impression it was going to change medicine practically overnight. - David Weatherall

What is news is that finally researchers have the actual genome, we have the data, but now the data is in widespread distribution. - James Reddoch

What he [Venter] realized is that the DNA in microorganisms is about 1,000th the length of the human genome. Instead of 3 billion base pairs, it is more like a couple of million-so it is a thousand-times-simpler problem. - Larry Smarr

We want to know how broad a trend these two genes represent. Did we get really lucky and hit on two rare examples of such genes? Or, are they representative of many other such genes throughout the genome. I would bet, though, that we will find evidence of selection in a lot more genes. - Bruce T. Lahn

We said that once we had finished sequencing the genome we would make it available to the scientific community for free, ... And we will be doing that on Monday morning at 10am. - Craig Venter