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Transposons are just small pieces of DNA that randomly insert in the genetic code. And if they insert in the middle of the gene, they disrupt its function.
We all evolved out of the same three or four groups in Africa, as black Africans.
We are going from reading our genetic code to the ability to write it. That gives us the hypothetical ability to do things never contemplated before.
We can create new food substances.
We can create new ways to create clean water.
We can do genetics. We can do experiments on fruit flies. We can do experiments on yeast. It's not so easy to do experiments on humans. So, in fact, it helps us, to interpret our own genetic code, to have the genetic code of the other species.
We can now diagnose diseases that haven't even manifested in the patient, and may not until the fifth decade of life - if at all.
We find all kinds of species that have taken up a second chromosome or a third one from somewhere, adding thousands of new traits in a second to that species. So, people who think of evolution as just one gene changing at a time have missed much of biology.
We have 100 genes or so, which we know we can't knock out without killing the cell, that are of unknown structure.
We have 200 trillion cells, and the outcome of each of them is almost 100 percent genetically determined. And that's what our experiment with the first synthetic genome proves, at least in the case of really simple bacteria. It's the interactions of all those separate genetic units that give us the physiology that we see.
We have trouble feeding, providing fresh, clean water, medicines, fuel for the six and a half billion. It's going to be a stretch to do it for nine.
We know virtually all of the genes known to mammals. We do not know all of the combinations.
We need 10,000 genomes, not 100, to start to understand the link between genetics, disease and wellness.
We're a country of laws and rules, and the Supreme Court has ruled that life forms are patentable entities.
We're moving from reading the genetic code to writing it.
When I started my Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego, I was told that it would be difficult to make a new discovery in biology because it was all known. It all seems so absurd now.
When most people talk about biofuels, they talk about using oils or grease from plants.
When you do cross-breeding of plants, you're doing this blind experiment where you're just mixing DNA of different types of cells and just seeing what comes out of it.
When you think of all the things that are made from oil or in the chemical industry, if in the future we could find cells to replace most of those processes, the ideal way would be to do it by direct design.
You can imagine: 99 percent of your experiments fail for one reason or another.
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