Eric Lander
Eric Lander
Eric Steven Lander, a mathematician and geneticist, is a Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, former member of the Whitehead Institute, and founding director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard who has devoted his career to realizing the promise of the human genome for medicine. He is co-chair of U.S. President Barack Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology...
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I think it means that we'll be able to track down the actual causes of disease, ... Most folks don't realize we don't know the cause of asthma, of heart disease, of diabetes or hypertension.
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The human genome itself is just a parts list. The human genome with the chimp genome tells us how these parts have changed.
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The more species we look at, the more, frankly, we find that humans are not exceptional here.
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We're not going to stand up and say that these 14 things make us human, ... But it's not trivial to be able to say, 'Here is an inventory of the most important differences, and now go at it and figure out which of these differences contain the signatures of what is distinctively human.'
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What makes evolution a scientific explanation is that it makes testable predictions. You only believe theories when they make non-obvious predictions that are confirmed by scientific evidence.