The Language of Life Quotes

“Today, we have discovered that everyone is born with dozens of genetic glitches. There are no perfect human specimens. But not all our glitches are the same, so one treatment often does not fit all sufferers of a given disease.”
― Francis S. Collins, The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine

“Studies of the interaction between genetic and environmental risks are pinpointing critical parts of our health that derive from environmental variables.”
― Francis S. Collins, The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine

“Discoveries about genetics are not limited to just those 6,000 conditions of a strongly hereditary nature, however. We are now in the midst of a genetic revolution that will touch all of us in numerous ways:”
― Francis S. Collins, The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine

“In fact, genetic medicine has brought the problems of rare genetic conditions right to my own door.”
― Francis S. Collins, The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine