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Unlike other autobiographies, the genome contains stories about the future as well as the past. Among the genes are clear messages about what will happen to your body as you age, a few of which we can already read. There is a gene, for example, that can alter your susceptibility...
Sometime within the next few months we shall have a rough first draft of the complete human genome. This is routinely reported as an event of medical and perhaps ethical significance. I believe it is more than that. I believe it is the greatest intellectual moment in history. Bar none...
The genome is a sort of autobiographical record, written in "genetish," of all the vicissitudes and inventions that have characterized the history of our species and its ancestors since the dawn of life. Genes have already told us that we are the closest relatives of chimpanzees; that the common ancestor...
It was genes that prescribed my shape, gave me five fingers on each hand and 32 teeth in my mouth, laid down my capacity for language and defined about half of my intellectual capacity. When I remember something, it is they that do it for me, switching on the neurochemical...
Breeding New Comedians While there has been much ballyhoo in the past decade over progress in cinematic special effects with computer-generated imagery (CGI), no one has been talking, at least publicly, about the incredible breakthroughs in the relatively nascent field of comedic gene engineering (CGE). Manipulating genes to alter...