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We can change the expression of more than 70 percent of the genes that have a direct bearing on our health and longevity.
You don't have to go the gym - just walk 10,000 steps a day and you are activating your good genes. But do practise yoga.
At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.
I have Scottish genes: my grandfather was Scottish. My father was a voracious drinker. So, drinking came naturally to me.
Despite having my share of ups and downs, I have always maintained good health. A large part of that is due to good genes.
I've always had an innate ability to dance, but I'm not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.
I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene.
We are fashioned not by our genes, but by our environment - by the family and socio-historic conditions in which we evolve.
Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.
The thing I'm most interested in is the nervous system. How do brains grow? How do genes build complicated nervous systems?
No one really has the guts to say it, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?
The immune system constantly creates genes on the fly that are specific to the things that show up in the body. It's amazing.
I hate to be fatalistic about it, but alcoholism, it's just in your genes. We had some of it in my family, and it just got me.
I first heard about 'genes' when I was six years old. At dinner one night, I heard my mom tell my sister, 'It's in your genes.'
My greatest vanity is my skin. It is the colour of gingerbread and, thanks to my mother's genes, smooth and mostly blemish-free.
The brain is not a bag of traits. It's startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect on the mind.
I've been lucky: my Japanese genes - from my mother's side - and a lifelong moisturising routine have helped keep me looking good.
I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes.
Walt Disney had a nuclear imagination before the advent of nuclear, some comprehension of apocalypse and rapture deep in his genes.
Hollywood was a detour, although my mother was an aristocrat from Tokyo who ran away to join the theatre, so acting is in my genes.
We've got the catalog, now we just have to figure it out. It's not going to be one gene. It's going to be an accumulation of changes.
Boxing's in my genes. I come from a fighting background. My dad and both my uncles were good boxers. I'm blessed with the art of war.
RNA interference has proven to be a quite reliable mechanism for turning genes off in a whole variety of different plants and animals.
Alia and Shaheen have a smart father and have got good genes. But it's not fair that people expect them to do as well as their father.
We found out that, contrary to what many people thought, in the immune system, genes can change during the life cycle of the individual.
I look better with a tan, but I've never gone the fake route. I don't need to - I have good foreign genes: half Spanish, half Hungarian.
Gene Roddenberry's thing always was, we should not pass judgment on anything that anyone else believes in or what they do in their lives.
It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.
Comedy comes from childhood only. The humour genes you are born with remain with you. I was always making mischief and making people laugh.
We humans invented literacy, which means it doesn't come for free with our genes like speech and vision. Every brain has to learn it afresh.
I know I can't eat whatever I want and look the way I want, so you need to work for it. I give credit to Pilates and my parents' good genes.
I always wanted to be Gene Hackman and I always wanted to be, you know... I wanted to be one of these guys. I always wanted to be Bob Duvall.
If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes.
You cannot insert a gene you took from a bacteria into a seed and call it LIFE. You have not created life, instead you have only polluted it.
I do not have a bride gene. I haven't been planning a wedding since I was 3. I never put a sheet on my head and pretended that it was a veil.
Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.
My family is as complicated as the next family. We have our joys and our tragedies, and we bear both with a black humour that is in our genes.
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.
My personal belief is that attraction to SF/F is coded right into your genes. I was attracted to monsters and robots as far back as I can remember.
I'm lucky to have very good genes. My mother was so tiny she was almost bird-like, and my father was tall and lean. Both lived until their early 80s.
It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.
My mother, who was in the Resistance in the Second World War, passed away at 96, and it was like she was 60. I almost have to apologise for my genes.
Of course when people are as talented as Jim O'Rourke or Gene Coleman, pretty soon you know that they're going to be part of the bigger scene anyway.
The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and it's never going to be quenched.
I've got royal blood coursing through my veins and if the boxing bug is 'something I've inherited through the family bloodline, I'm proud of my genes.
No one but Gene Tierney could have played 'Laura.' There was no other actress around with her particular combination of beauty, breeding, and mystery.
Aging followed by death is the price we pay for the immortality of our genes. You find this information soul-killing; I find it thrilling, liberating.
Most groups patent ways of using genetic discoveries as part of non-obvious diagnostic and therapeutic protocols and slightly or greatly altered genes.
Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies.
Honestly, I'm blessed with good genes and a good sense of discipline - I eat whatever I want, but I eat very controlled portions and stop when I'm full.