Shreesha Bhat

“Will focusing on de-extinction and designer pets distract us from protecting existing endangered species or mistreated and neglected companion animals?”
― Jennifer A. Doudna, A Crack in Creation: The New Power to Control Evolution

“A full 8 percent of the human genome—over 250 million letters of DNA—is a remnant of ancient retroviruses that infected ancestors of our species millennia ago.”
― Jennifer A. Doudna, A Crack in Creation: The New Power to Control Evolution

“The human genome also includes a separate mini-chromosome—just sixteen thousand letters of DNA—located in mitochondria, the energy-producing batteries of the cell. Unlike the genetic code found in other chromosomes, mitochondrial DNA is inherited exclusively from the mother.”
― Jennifer A. Doudna, A Crack in Creation: The New Power to Control Evolution

“an anticoagulant called antithrombin, and it is secreted in the milk of genetically modified goats. Another approved drug is isolated from the milk of transgenic rabbits, and in 2015, the FDA gave the go-ahead for a protein-based drug that is purified from the egg whites of transgenic chickens.56”
― Jennifer A. Doudna, A Crack in Creation: The New Power to Control Evolution