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“This overall flow of genetic information—from DNA to RNA to protein—is known as the central dogma of molecular biology, and it is the language used to communicate and express life.”
― A Crack In Creation: A Nobel Prize Winner's Insight into the Future of Genetic Engineering
― A Crack In Creation: A Nobel Prize Winner's Insight into the Future of Genetic Engineering
“Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
“But DNA isn’t really like that. It’s more like a script. Think of Romeo and Juliet, for example. In 1936 George Cukor directed Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer in a film version. Sixty years later Baz Luhrmann directed Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes in another movie version of this play. Both productions used Shakespeare’s script, yet the two movies are entirely different. Identical starting points, different outcomes.”
― The Epigenetics Revolution
― The Epigenetics Revolution
“Every day, it has been estimated, between one and five of your cells turn cancerous, and your immune system captures and kills them.”
― The Body: A Guide for Occupants
― The Body: A Guide for Occupants
“Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
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