In Greek myth, a chimera is a creepy combination of lion, goat, dragon - in humans, chimeras are one person who contains two sets of DNA. That's right. One person comes up in tests as two different people.
When I was 16, my dad took me to a DNA conference at the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco, California, and I was captivated by this way of looking at biology and by the discussions of bits of nucleic acid that could make us sick.
The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.
I would only once have the opportunity to let my scientific career encompass a path from the double helix to the three billion steps of the human genome.
Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.
One of the things about genetics that has become clearer as we've done genomes - as we've worked our way through the evolutionary tree, including humans - is that we're probably much more genetic animals than we want to confess we are.
My fans are buying the DNA of Dave.
If you are foolish enough to defend your own home against burglary, expect to be arrested, fingerprinted, DNA-swabbed, and probably charged.
My dog's name is Tucker, and his DNA is unidentifiable and suspect.
My DNA is building a product and a service.
We know virtually all of the genes known to mammals. We do not know all of the combinations.
True-crime shows and podcasts aren't the only ones flattening the complexity of forensic science into easy-to-grasp narratives: journalists do so, too. They say DNA or trace evidence 'matches' a suspect, when scientists can't be so definitive.
My mother often mailed me articles from 'Reader's Digest' about advances in DNA chemistry. No matter how I tried to explain it to her, she never grasped the concept that I could have been writing those articles, that something I had invented made most of those DNA discoveries possible.
A couple of years ago, I had my DNA sequencing done, and it is all anonymous. When the results came back, my musculature type said, 'most likely to be a sprinter.'
Joseph Mandell and I began by attempting to make chromatography of DNA work.
Throughout my life, I've had consistent DNA.
I was first exposed to the idea of macro-molecular sequences while I was a postdoctoral fellow with Jack Strominger at Harvard. During that time, I briefly visited Fred Sanger's laboratory in Cambridge, England, to learn the methodology of RNA fingerprinting and sequencing.
Natural DNA is a tractless coil, like an unwound and tangled audiotape on the floor of the car in the dark.
I was using very unconventional methods to sequence the telemetric DNA, originally.
I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.
Genome sequencing has changed taxonomy.
There is a long history of how DNA sequencing can bring certainty to people's lives.
With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.
Nuclear DNA encodes all the proteins and enzymes that make you you, basically.
I think that the idea of people wanting to steal your genome remains a little bit in the world of science fiction.
