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Junk DNA - or, as scientists call it nowadays, noncoding DNA - remains a mystery: No one knows how much of it is essential for life.

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

At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.

We have a huge amount of DNA in common with jellyfish.

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

One of the central mysteries of biology is why the genome is largely identical from cell to cell, even though cells do different things.

The inability to trace DNA to actual diseases has serious consequences. As does the opposite problem - not being able to trace diseases back to DNA.

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

It turns out synthesizing DNA is very difficult. There are tens of thousands of machines around the world that make small pieces of DNA - 30 to 50 letters in length - and it's a degenerate process, so the longer you make the piece, the more errors there are.

Throughout my life, I've had consistent DNA.