The Deeper Genome Quotes

“This makes the genome exquisitely sensitive to signals from the environment, and challenges the idea that life is merely a one-way flow of information from DNA to organism.”
― John Parrington, The Deeper Genome: Why There Is More to the Human Genome Than Meets the Eye

“being a linear code, the genome only really makes sense as a 3D entity.37 Moreover, this 3D entity dynamically changes in response to signals originating both from within, and outside, the cell.”
― John Parrington, The Deeper Genome: Why There Is More to the Human Genome Than Meets the Eye

“we can now observe changes in the activity of the genome as a whole.35 This analysis can extend both to a whole organ like the human brain, but also allows us to study how genes are switched on”
― John Parrington, The Deeper Genome: Why There Is More to the Human Genome Than Meets the Eye

“conundrums in biology: this is the fact that our genes, which supposedly define us as a species, but also distinguish you or I or anyone else on the planet from each other, make up only 2 per cent of our DNA. The other 98 per cent had been written off as ‘junk’;”
― John Parrington, The Deeper Genome: Why There Is More to the Human Genome Than Meets the Eye

“What is a scientist after all? It is a curious person looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what’s going on.”
― John Parrington, The Deeper Genome: Why There Is More to the Human Genome Than Meets the Eye

“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.”
― John Parrington, The Deeper Genome: Why There Is More to the Human Genome Than Meets the Eye