All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger. |
As our closest relatives, they (chimpanzees) tell us special things about what it means to be a primate and, ultimately, what it means to be a human at the DNA level. |
By 2015, we will see the beginnings of a real transformation in the therapeutics of medicine, which by 2020 will have touched virtually every disorder, ... And the drugs that we give in 2020 will for the most part be those that were based on the understanding of the genome, and the things that we use today will be relegated to the dust bin. |
Conditions that we know have genetic contributions but which have been rather difficult to nail down, this set of power tools that the genome project is producing will accelerate this discovery process rather dramatically, and we're going to see the consequences of that in the next three to five years, |
Four years ago, we took down the book called Homo sapiens, ... Today, we take down the book next to it on the shelf. |
FTIs, originally developed for cancer, are capable of reversing the dramatic nuclear structure abnormalities that are the hallmark of cells from children with progeria, |
I find death terrifying. |
I think it's a time to be very excited and optimistic, ... within the next five to 10 years. |
It's a huge deal. We now have the instruction book of our closest relative. |
it's hard to overstate the importance of reading our own instruction book and that's what the human genome project is all about. |
More than 300 genes have been implicated in the diabolical transformation of normal cells into cancer cells, and that has led to major insights into cause, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure. |
Sequencing the chimp genome is a historic achievement that is destined to lead to many more exciting discoveries with implications for human health, |
The Genome Project gave us the letters of the DNA code that we all share. |
The hopes of the parent of a child with a birth defect, the hopes of a young man with a family history of cancer, the hopes of a couple caring for an aging parent are in some way advanced by our having this instruction book of an animal which is a model for all of those circumstances. |
The question is if we do collect a lot of genetic material from people ... are you going to see those people then injured when their health provider or employer uses that information to take away opportunities. At the moment, in the United States particularly, those protections are not in place at a federal level. |