Davos 2010 - IdeasLab with MIT - Sebastian Seung
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The ancient Greeks compared human life to a slender thread, spun, measured, and cut by three goddesses called The Fates. Today, by all the search for the secrets of human life in a different thread, that’s slender molecule called DNA, two strands wound in a double helix. Each strand is composed of small molecules called nucleotides. which come in four types designated by the letters A, C, G, and T. Your DNA spells out more than a billion letters in a sequence that is known as your genome. Your genome and mine are almost identical which is why we are more similar to each other than to our dogs or cats. But our genomes also differ very slightly which is why we look different and why we are susceptible to different diseases. It is tempting to think that I am my genome, but that would...
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The ancient Greeks compared human life to a slender thread, spun, measured, and cut by three goddesses called The Fates. Today, by all the search for the secrets of human life in a different thread, that’s slender molecule called DNA, two strands wound in a double helix. Each strand is composed of small molecules called nucleotides. which come in four types designated by the letters A, C, G, and T. Your DNA spells out more than a billion letters in a sequence that is known as your genome. Your genome and mine are almost identical which is why we are more similar to each other than to our dogs or cats. But our genomes also differ very slightly which is why we look different and why we are susceptible to different diseases. It is tempting to think that I am my genome, but that would...
