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“The hopes of the parent of a child with a birth defect, the hopes of a young man with a family history of cancer, the hopes of a couple caring for an aging parent are in some way advanced by our having this instruction book of an animal which is a model for all of those circumstances.”
Francis Collins
“This is a stunning surprise, rather like finding out that the key to your house also works in the ignition of your car,”
“FTIs, originally developed for cancer, are capable of reversing the dramatic nuclear structure abnormalities that are the hallmark of cells from children with progeria,”
“This is a stunning surprise, rather like finding out that the key to your house also works in the ignition of your car.”
“We can peek into evolution's lab notebook and see what went on there.”
“It's a huge deal. We now have the instruction book of our closest relative.”
“As our closest relatives, they (chimpanzees) tell us special things about what it means to be a primate and, ultimately, what it means to be a human at the DNA level.”
“Sequencing the chimp genome is a historic achievement that is destined to lead to many more exciting discoveries with implications for human health,”
“Four years ago, we took down the book called Homo sapiens, ... Today, we take down the book next to it on the shelf.”
“We've learnt fascinating lessons”
