Stable in a Genome of Instability: An Interview with Evan Eichler

摘要

We like to think that our genome is rock-solid, that it is dependable, there for us when we need it. The truth is far from that. By fits and starts, our species' collective genome is undulating, reshaping itself with eruptions of genomic lava and clashes of sequence tectonics, at once both marvelous and unsettling. We are unaware of this tumult within us until we are confronted with disease in ourselves, our friends, or our family.