Genetic Analysis Quotes

Mitochondrial DNA is in higher concentration, lasts longer, and can be extracted from bones.

I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics and natural selection before and not after most of them were convinced that evolution had occurred.

My lab used to do gene expression and genomics, and we did a lot of sequencing samples from virus outbreaks.

If I can get people to accept that a DNA test is nothing to be intimidated about, then we can do tests that determine how well you metabolise certain drugs and test for breast cancer.

The idea was to study fertilization in as many different phyla and organisms as possible, using the simplest possible equipment and a microscope. Biochemical approaches were not much in vogue, and running gels impossible at first.

How do you know your Colossus is the genuine article in the first place? I read his mind. I matched his DNA. I smelled him. I also did that.

Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets.

We can get much better outcomes from people if we understand the genetic basis of the exact cancer that they have, what interventions might be most effective against it, what's worked in the past and what hasn't.

We are still working with an incomplete compass. The time is right to bring the full power of genomics to bear on the problem of cancer.

The inability to trace DNA to actual diseases has serious consequences. As does the opposite problem - not being able to trace diseases back to DNA.

FDA clearance is an important step on the path towards getting genetic information integrated with routine medical care.

Applying smarter IT to genomic data may offer the potential to cure many types of cancer and other diseases.

I just wanted to thank you' he says, his voice low. 'A group of scientists told you that my genes were damaged, that there was something wrong with me - they showed you the test results that proved it. And even I started to believe it.' He touches my face, his thumb skimming my cheekbone, and his eyes are on mine, intense and insistent. 'You never believed it,' he says 'Not for a second. You always insisted I was... I don't know, whole.

I was using very unconventional methods to sequence the telemetric DNA, originally.

Genome sequencing has changed taxonomy.

If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.

Many people thought that, given my knowledge of the egg, I should analyse embryonic mutants.

I'm not sure the Russians would be happy that their iconic wooly mammoth has North American origins.

We are sometimes asked what the result would be if we put four +'s in one gene. To answer this my colleagues have recently put together not merely four but six +'s.

Genomics is a new idea. Like the PC, it's not obvious at first that anyone would want one. It's like, 'Hey, we've already got one genome, why do we need more?'

But full sequencing? No. Very hard to interpret. At some point probably we'll all have that opportunity but most of what's there will be stuff that we don't know what to say much about. So it's a great research tool, but for clinical purposes to advise somebody to practice better health maintenance, it's not necessarily gonna be a big one for a while.

I fell in love with the elegance and precision of genetic analysis and experimentation to answer profound biological questions.

If you have lung cancer, the most important thing you can know is your genetic code.

With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.

My idea right from the beginning, I guess, was to dismantle the immune system one gene at a time so we could track the mutations that cause problems.