Biocode Quotes

“Another issue is more intellectually intriguing, and goes to the heart of DNA’s power. What about the rights of relatives to privacy? The genotyping of someone under arrest could be considered a reasonable search of that person,”
― Dawn Field, Biocode: The New Age of Genomics

“Using DNA means supplementing, or even abandoning, years of successful ‘gut instinct’. We are quickly moving into an era where all our farmed food will be the result of comparisons and calculations of the DNA kind.”
― Dawn Field, Biocode: The New Age of Genomics

“Roadside services, and perhaps one day the routine screening of babies, can make the paternity of offspring immediately evident.”
― Dawn Field, Biocode: The New Age of Genomics

“Worldwide digital storage overtook the amount of information stored on paper and other analogue media for the first time in 2002. By 2007, 94 per cent of our information was”
― Dawn Field, Biocode: The New Age of Genomics