Iain McGilchrist Quotes

Every cell in your body contains the same genetic information.

The origin of each of us stems from codes of genetic inheritance.

Before the Human Genome Project, most scientists assumed, based on our complex brains and behaviors, that humans must have around 100,000 genes; some estimates went as high as 150,000.

Genes themselves are made of bits.

The Human Genome Project has given us a genetic parts list.

Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations.

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.

Your genome isn't really secret.

Consider: The human genome consists of about 3.3 billion base pairs. Since there are only four types of pair, that amounts to 0.8 gigabytes of information, or about what you can fit on a CD. With a microwave radio transmitter, you could beam that amount of information into space in a few minutes, and have it travel to anyone at light speed.

DNA is ROM. It can be read millions of times over, but only written to once - when it is first assembled the birth of the cell in which it resides.

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

The nucleic acids have considerable biological importance because of their role in cell growth and in the transmission of hereditary characters.

Genes are natural resources.

The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.

You can't have life without the genetic code.

DNA is the master blueprint for life and constitutes the genetic material in all free-living organisms and most viruses. RNA is the genetic material of certain viruses, but it is also found in all living cells, where it plays an important role in certain processes such as the making of proteins.

If we think of our chromosomes - they carry our genetic material - as being like shoelaces, I work on the plastic tips at the end that protect them.

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.

We know that at conception, the genetic code is there for a unique individual. This is not something that is just a religious belief.

My genetic makeup is a little bit crazy.

You contain a trillion copies of a large, textual document written in a highly accurate, digital code, each copy as voluminous as a substantial book. I'm talking, of course, of the DNA in your cells.

Genes are biochemical recipes written in a four-letter alphabet called DNA.

Genes are little items that are found in every living thing except Sen. Alfonse D'Amato.

The river of my title is a river of DNA, a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues

Earlier this week ... scientists announced the completion of a task that once seemed unimaginable; and that is, the deciphering of the entire DNA sequence of the human genetic code. This amazing accomplishment is likely to affect the 21st century as profoundly as the invention of the computer or the splitting of the atom affected the 20th century. I believe that the 21st century will be the century of life sciences, and nothing makes that point more clearly than this momentous discovery. It will revolutionize medicine as we know it today.