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

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 are all cells in the same body of humanity.

My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body.

Knowing what your parents have gives you hints of things, but your genome is a totally unique combination of and interchange of DNA from your parents. There is no one else like you genetically.

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

From the beginning, each human embryo has its own unique genetic identity.

We have 200 trillion cells, and the outcome of each of them is almost 100 percent genetically determined. And that's what our experiment with the first synthetic genome proves, at least in the case of really simple bacteria. It's the interactions of all those separate genetic units that give us the physiology that we see.

For each gene in your genome, you quite often get a different version of that gene from your father and a different version from your mother. We need to study these relationships across a very large number of people.