One way to change our genes is to make new ones, as Craig Venter has so elegantly shown.

Polygenic. Many genes.

Further, the SHARe Study (SNP Health Association Resource Study) uncovered new candidate genes, and confirmed already known candidate genes (for homocysteine and vitamin B12 levels) in participants of the Framingham Heart Study.

When the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes were discovered more than a decade ago, there were high hopes for novel and targeted therapies.

And the genes it turns on includes antioxidant genes, genes I call carrot giver genes, whose protein products actually help other proteins to function well to fold correctly and function correctly.

Are you more than your genes?

Everybody I am more than my genes.

So there's genes for the short tail in the band tailed pigeon, genes for the long tail in the passenger pigeon, and so on with the red eye, peach colored breast, flocking, and so on.

I suspect that not everybody in the audience is a geneticist.

Man, the entire family must have good genes or something.

So there's genes for the short tail in the band tailed pigeon, genes for the long tail in the passenger pigeon, and so on with the red eye, peach colored breast, flocking, and so on.

Furthermore, prions lack their own genes.

They're going to work on the genomes of the passenger pigeon and the band tailed pigeon.

Well, Sarah thought a little bit more about my work and said, Genes.

We found nuclear mitochondrial genes. It's there.

All right I'm more than my genes all together.

So we've set out to look for genes that control aging.

They're going to work on the genomes of the passenger pigeon and the band tailed pigeon.

And the Y chromosome, it's the most gene poor of all the chromosomes.

And if you could do that, then you could find the genes for aging.

DNA repair genes are more active in these animals.

Ah, so the kinds of drugs I was talking about would not change the genes, they would just bind to the protein itself and change its activity.

A key thing is that the major violence genes, it's called the MAO A gene.

Can she give my kids good genes. Other than those questions...

We can do that in multiple individuals that we've assayed too.

Now these animals are different from one another, because they have different genes.

Conversely, we know that new genes, designated ORFans ( orphan genes ), are commonly created by gene duplication, fusion, or other unknown mechanisms.

And the genes it turns on includes antioxidant genes, genes I call carrot giver genes, whose protein products actually help other proteins to function well to fold correctly and function correctly.

However, the other genes of the X chromosome cause feminization as well.

What happens is you have a combination here between codominance and recessive genes.

And yet, I would like to think that I am more than my genes.

The Asperger guy.

The DNA is organized in words, call them genes and chromosomes.

Still more longevity genes have been identified by studying long lived people.

That's why sometimes a person's genes don't have to change a lot to get cancer.

So this is a form of synthetic hybridization of the genome of an extinct species with the genome of its closest living relative.

The reason why I'm making all of these assumptions is because I essentially want to have a stable gene pool, at

However, some, very few, but some, single traits are decided by a single gene,

We all have FOXO genes, but we don't all have exactly the same form of the FOXO gene.

We don't know the details of how this works, but we do know then that FOXO genes can impact the lifespan of people.

So that suggests that somewhere in these genes, somewhere in the DNA, are genes for aging, genes that allow them to have different lifespans.

So when they looked at the genetics of basking sharks, they found that the diversity was incredibly low.

I forgot the statistic, but there's something like 80 of people in Asia have genes from either one man or some small collection of men who date actually, I think it's from one man from the 1200s.

They have very few genes, and genetic information to encode all of the traits that they carry out.

This is what's called a heat map and the different colors and along the side, on the right, are different genes.