In 1976, the biologist Richard Dawkins identified the unit of Darwinian selection as the selfish gene.

And the profound realization for me is that, if this works, the concept of the selfish gene gets kicked up a level, and we really start talking about selfish matter.

To be sure, the selfish gene needs to be altruistic insofar as its survival depends on the survival of the kinship group.

And, although Dawkins later regretted calling his gene selfish (he says that immortal would have been better), his choice of adjective was certainly best adapted to maximizing sales of his book at that particular time.

He's a very selfish person.

He's a very selfish person.

Why are you so selfish?

It was very selfish, actually ...

I don't intend to be selfish.

I don't intend to be selfish.

The project created three generations of supercomputers, Blue Gene L, Blue Gene P, and Blue Gene Q.

So, technology is selfish technology is generous.

Although its discoverers dubbed this gene the adipose gene, it is not a gene responsible for creating adipose tissue.

Heterologous expression refers to the expression of a gene or part of a gene in a host organism, which does not naturally have this gene or gene fragment.

The selfish man was despised by his colleagues.

Above all things, we must not be selfish.

Gene ontology, or GO, is a major bioinformatics initiative to unify the representation of gene and gene product attributes across all species.

The word meme was coined by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene , as an attempt to explain the way cultural information spreads Internet memes are a subset of this general meme concept specific to the culture and environment of the Internet.

They point at the EDA2R gene as the gene mostly associated with AGA.

Gene The gene is located near two cytochrome P450 pseudogenes on chromosome 22q13.1.

Gene Pool Rules

The Gene Technology Regulator also certifies containment facilities known to be used for gene technology work and some not used for gene technology work.

Gene synthesis has become an important tool in many fields of recombinant DNA technology including heterologous gene expression, vaccine development, gene therapy and molecular engineering.

But Smith stressed that private interests always pursue selfish interests

I feel selfish and only thinking of me in Syria

Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.

Blue Gene Q continues to expand and enhance the Blue Gene L and P architectures.

Is Gene Doping Wrong?

When you read this prayer, it sounds incredibly selfish, self centered.

The God gene hypothesis proposes that a specific gene (VMAT2) predisposes humans towards spiritual or mystic experiences.

Delay for either of these reasons would be a very selfish act.

Human gene therapy Gene therapy, uses genetically modified viruses to deliver genes that can cure disease in humans.

And it s in a sense the most selfish thing that we can do.

Transcription and mRNA splicing Gene expression.

For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

And the first gene that was mapped in association studies for this, early onset prostate cancer, was this gene called RNASEL.

Essentially, such a person is saying I am either extraordinarily ignorant, or just plain selfish.

One such example is gluthathione S transferase S11 crystallin that was specialized for lens expression by change in gene regulation and gene duplication.

DISC1 is a gene that's deleted in schizophrenia.

So now we have this Blue Gene supercomputer.

How can changing a single gene do this?

DOE started funding the development of this system and it became known as Blue Gene L (L for Light) development of the original Blue Gene system continued under the name Blue Gene C (C for Cyclops) and, later, Cyclops64.

A gene family is a set of several similar genes, formed by duplication of a single original gene, and generally with similar biochemical functions.

Perhaps there are some non utopian ways of transcending selfish interests and doing what is necessary.

The temptation to appease suffering populations with populist, selfish measures may grow as the crisis deepens.