AtomicQuote

Rebecca Skloot Quote

Soon after Harris’s HeLa-chicken study, a pair of researchers at New York University discovered that human-mouse hybrids lost their human chromosomes over time, leaving only the mouse chromosomes. This allowed scientists to begin mapping human genes to specific chromosomes by tracking the order in which genetic traits vanished. If a chromosome disappeared and production of a certain enzyme stopped, researchers knew the gene for that enzyme must be on the most recently vanished chromosome. Scientists in laboratories throughout North America and Europe began fusing cells and using them to map genetic traits to specific chromosomes, creating a precursor to the human genome map we have today.

Rebecca Skloot

Soon after Harris’s HeLa-chicken study, a pair of researchers at New York University discovered that human-mouse hybrids lost their human chromosomes over time, leaving only the mouse chromosomes. This allowed scientists to begin mapping human genes to specific chromosomes by tracking the order in which genetic traits vanished. If a chromosome disappeared and production of a certain enzyme stopped, researchers knew the gene for that enzyme must be on the most recently vanished chromosome. Scientists in laboratories throughout North America and Europe began fusing cells and using them to map genetic traits to specific chromosomes, creating a precursor to the human genome map we have today.

Tags: genetics, hela, henrietta lacks, human genome, medical research

Related Quotes

As long as museums and universities send out expeditions to bring to light new forms of living and extinct animals and new data illustrating the interrelations of organisms and their environments, as...

William King Gregory

As long as museums and universities send out expeditions to bring to light new forms of living and extinct animals and new data illustrating the interrelations of organisms and their environments, as...

Tags: anatomy, biology, cytology, data, evolution, genetics, laboratory, museum, phylogeny, physiological chemistry

Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are.

Matthieu Ricard

Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are.

Tags: bliss, brain, buddhist, buddhist monk, change, changes, genetics, mango, mango tree, meditation

The human has genetic adaptation to natural electromagnetic radiation. Increasing, reducing or removing the natural radiation exposures results in a sickened human that may progress onto a diseased st...

Steven Magee

The human has genetic adaptation to natural electromagnetic radiation. Increasing, reducing or removing the natural radiation exposures results in a sickened human that may progress onto a diseased st...

Tags: adaptability, adaptation, disease, diseased, diseases, electromagnetic, electromagnetic radiation, electromagnetic theory of light, electromagnetic wave, exposure

I think that the formation of [DNA's] structure by

Linus Pauling

I think that the formation of [DNA's] structure by

Tags: discovery, discovery of dna, dna, francis crick, genetics, james watson, nobel laureate, science, watson and crick

A four-letter alphabet called DNA.

Matt Ridley

A four-letter alphabet called DNA.

Tags: genetics, heredity

The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

John Burdon Sanderson Haldane

The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

Tags: evolutionary biology, genetics, science

Genetics, accidents of birth or events in early childhood have left criminals' brains and bodies with measurable flaws predisposing them to committing assault, murder and other antisocial acts. .... M...

Adrian Raine

Genetics, accidents of birth or events in early childhood have left criminals' brains and bodies with measurable flaws predisposing them to committing assault, murder and other antisocial acts. .... M...

Tags: brain states, brains, crime, criminal, criminology, determinism, genes, genetics, neurology, neuroscience

In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains.

Edward Tatum

In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains.

Tags: bacteria, biology, culture, evolution, genetics, microbiology, mutation, natural selection, nobel laureate, science

I have had my mother's wing of my genetic ancestry analyzed by the tracing service and there it all is: the arrow moving northward from the African savannah, skirting the Mediterranean by way of the...

Christopher Hitchens

I have had my mother's wing of my genetic ancestry analyzed by the tracing service and there it all is: the arrow moving northward from the African savannah, skirting the Mediterranean by way of the...

Tags: ancestry, british isles, central europe, determinism, eastern europe, genealogy, genetics, history, investigation, journalism

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.

Alvin Toffler

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.

Tags: computers, science, together, genetics
About Rebecca Skloot

Rebecca L. Skloot (born September 19, 1972) is an American science writer who specializes in science and medicine. Her first book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010), was one of the best-selling new books of 2010, staying on The New York Times Bestseller list for over 6 years and eventually reaching #1. It was adapted into a movie by George C. Wolfe, which premiered on HBO on April 22, 2017, and starred Rose Byrne as Skloot, and Oprah Winfrey as Lacks's daughter Deborah.