Shreesha Bhat

“a recent study found that people learn better after a quiet stroll through the woods than after a noisy walk down a city street.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Labradors are prone to some thirty genetic conditions, 60 percent of golden retrievers succumb to cancer, beagles are commonly afflicted with epilepsy, and Cavalier King Charles spaniels suffer from seizures and persistent pain due to their deformed skulls.66 These poignant medical problems haven’t kept humans from letting tastes dictate the genotype and phenotype of humankind’s best friend.”
― Jennifer A. Doudna, 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”
― 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