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.
“Work alone. You’re going to be best able to design revolutionary products and features if you’re working on your own. Not on a committee. Not on a team.”
― Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
― Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
“CRISPR offers the greatest hope to treat monogenic genetic diseases—those caused by a single mutated gene.”
― A Crack in Creation: The New Power to Control Evolution
― A Crack in Creation: The New Power to Control Evolution
“Scholars and journalists have already started dreaming that CRISPR might be used to create mythical creatures like winged dragons by editing the genes of Komodo dragons,70 noting in a prominent bioethics journal that, while basic physics would prevent them from breathing fire, “a very large reptile that looks at least somewhat like the European or Asian dragon (perhaps even with flappable if not flyable wings) could be someone’s target of opportunity.”71”
― A Crack in Creation: The New Power to Control Evolution
― 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.”
― A Crack in Creation: The New Power to Control Evolution
― 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.”
― A Crack in Creation: The New Power to Control Evolution
― A Crack in Creation: The New Power to Control Evolution
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