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The more that I looked at DNA, the more I realized it was nature and nurture. It's how genes and your environment work together to produce the person you are.

Our understanding of how DNA informs our health and development is advancing at an incredible pace.

DNA is a 'thing' - a chemical that sticks to your fingers.

The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.

I think you can say that life is a system in which proteins and nucleic acids interact in ways that allow the structure to grow and reproduce. It's that growth and reproduction, the ability to make more of yourself, that's important.

Every cell in your body contains the same genetic information.

It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.

Genes can't possibly explain all of what makes us what we are.

The DNA showed I have a level of endurance in me which I never really realised, which makes sense.

We carry stores of DNA in our nuclei that may have come in, at one time or another, from the fusion of ancestral cells and the linking of ancestral organisms in symbiosis. Our genomes are catalogues of instructions from all kinds of sources in nature, filed for all kinds of contingencies.