The beauty in the genome is of course that it’s so small. The human genome is only on the order of a gigabyte of data…which is a tiny little database. If you take the entire...

I am suggesting here that organisms have a built-I capability of adapting to their environment. I am suggesting that to the extent that evolution occurs, it occurs at the level of the organism. This suggestion...

The gene contains a single ‘word’, repeated over and over again: CAG, CAG, CAG, CAG … The repetition continues sometimes just six times, sometimes thirty, sometimes more than a hundred times. Your destiny, your sanity...

TP53 seems to encode the greater good, like a suicide pill in the mouth of a soldier that dissolves only when it detects evidence that he is about to mutiny.

Science has discovered that, like any work of literature, the human genome is a text in need of commentary, for what Eliot said of poetry is also true of DNA: ‘all meanings depend on the...

Parts of our genome simply cannot survive a situation where the environment suffers from the full overload of toxins we currently live in.

Adam & Eve have been degraded, reduplicated forever, photocopies of photocopies, mistakes copied, magnified, augmented.