Quotes Tagged "genes"

Illness might progressively vanish so might identity. Grief might be diminished, but so might tenderness. Traumas might be erased but so might history. Infirmities might disappear, but so might vulnerability. Chance would become mitigated, but so, inevitably, would choice.

If we are made in his image. How will that change in this next stage in our evolution? Where we have cloning of individuals and gene manipulation to enhance ourselves. Are we changing what that image is?

Selfish genes actually explain altruistic individuals, and to me that's crystal-clear.

There are scientists all around the world looking for the genes responsible for bipolar illness and major depression.

I have this idea of trying to catalog all the genes on the planet.

So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family environment either. It can't be explained in terms of the overall personalities or the child-rearing practices of parents.

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

The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.

I have Scottish genes: my grandfather was Scottish. My father was a voracious drinker. So, drinking came naturally to me.

I was blessed with good looks and I have good genes.

We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.

Mutations can arise anywhere in the genome, in gene DNA and noncoding DNA alike. But mutations to genes have bigger consequences: They can disable proteins and kill a creature.

Most groups patent ways of using genetic discoveries as part of non-obvious diagnostic and therapeutic protocols and slightly or greatly altered genes.

RNA interference has proven to be a quite reliable mechanism for turning genes off in a whole variety of different plants and animals.

Walt Disney had a nuclear imagination before the advent of nuclear, some comprehension of apocalypse and rapture deep in his genes.

But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo.