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With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.

The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.

There is a long history of how DNA sequencing can bring certainty to people's lives.

With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.

People are comprised of sets of DNA from each parent. If you looked at just the DNA from your father, it wouldn't tell you who you really are.

The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don't understand.

Many police departments still use DNA evidence the way they have used fingerprints and tire tracks: to determine whether a suspect committed the crime.

If I can get people to accept that a DNA test is nothing to be intimidated about, then we can do tests that determine how well you metabolise certain drugs and test for breast cancer.

There's a real sense of fighting and destruction in our DNA that we don't get in touch with.

You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.