Sublime

a capacidade de predizer forma, função, futuro e destino a partir de um genoma individual avançou de maneira notável (ainda que desconheçamos as verdadeiras capacidades preditivas dessas tecnologias).

Genomic model: history is what DNA (and languages, and artifacts) show us. David Reich’s Who We Are and How We Got Here is the canonical popular summary of this school of thought, along with Cavalli-Sforza’s older book on the History and Geography of Human Genes.

double-stranded RNA had a powerful ability to interfere with gene expression.

The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

Brenner was in a thoughtful mood, drinking sherry before dinner at King’s College. When he began working with Crick, less than two decades before, molecular biology did not even have a name. Two decades later, in the 1990s, scientists worldwide would undertake the mapping of the entire human genome: perhaps 20,000 genes, 3 billion base pairs. What

This system works to protect us in our outer environment.

So think of your genes as a library of potentials.