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The immune system constantly creates genes on the fly that are specific to the things that show up in the body. It's amazing.

It's possible that we could change a human gene and double our life span. I don't know if that's true, but we can't rule that out.

Realizing the ways in which we humans may have been inadvertently changing our genes for millennia provides a way for us to begin to think about the inevitable genetic revolution in medicine that is going to allow us to advertently change our genes over centuries and even decades.

The problem with existing biology is you change only one or two genes at a time.

In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have doubled our life span since we were chimpanzees.

First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes.

Once the principle is there, that cells have the same genes, my own personal belief is that we will, in the end, understand everything about how cells actually work.

We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.

My idea right from the beginning, I guess, was to dismantle the immune system one gene at a time so we could track the mutations that cause problems.

We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.