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In biology right now, we are on the very verge of being able to control our own genetics, what the genes in our own bodies are doing, and certainly, eventually, our own evolution.

James managed it, finally, just a few years ago, by adding some genes that make it impossible for the malaria parasite to survive inside the mosquito.

There are a couple options, but plan A was basically to breed up a bunch of the new genetically-engineered mosquitos release them into the wild and hope that they pass on their genes.

Many of you have probably heard about CRISPR, so I'll just say briefly that CRISPR is a tool that allows researchers to edit genes very precisely, easily and quickly.

The result is basically a word processor for genes.

Normally when we mess around with an organism's genes, we make that thing less evolutionarily fit.

First, you'd have to figure out which genes control what the fly wants to eat, which is already a very long and complicated project.

Then you'd have to alter those genes to change the fly's behavior to whatever you'd want it to be, which is an even longer and more complicated project.

And it might not even work, because the genes that control behavior are complex.

And in the same way many of us are now wearing sensors that detect our heart rate, our respiration, our genes, on the hopes that this may help us prevent diseases, we can ask whether monitoring and analyzing the words we speak, we tweet, we email, we write, can tell us ahead of time whether something may go wrong with our minds.

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

So this sets up this beautiful natural experiment where we can look at the genes behind our vision, and at the very roots of how we can see.

But the genes in these cavefishes can also tell us about deep geological time, maybe no more so than in this species here.

We decided to clone all the five human genes responsible for making type I collagen in humans into a transgenic tobacco plant.

It looks exactly like regular tobacco, except that they have five human genes.

In our recent experiments, we found with patch-cutting and retention of hub trees and regeneration to a diversity of species and genes and genotypes that these mycorrhizal networks, they recover really rapidly.

These are the repositories of genes and mother trees and mycorrhizal networks.

And third, when we do cut, we need to save the legacies, the mother trees and networks, and the wood, the genes, so they can pass their wisdom onto the next generation of trees so they can withstand the future stresses coming down the road.

I bet you will never look at that black truffle risotto again without thinking of its genes.

But what is happening is that CRISPR is being used by thousands and thousands of scientists to do really, really important work, like making better models of diseases in animals, for example, or for taking pathways that produce valuable chemicals and getting them into industrial production in fermentation vats, or even doing really basic research on what genes do.

And all of a sudden, what we're doing is we've got this multidimensional chess board where we can change human genetics by using viruses to attack things like AIDS, or we can change the gene code through gene therapy to do away with some hereditary diseases, or we can change the environment, and change the expression of those genes in the epigenome and pass that on to the next generations.

By genetic disease we mean that cancer is caused by oncogenes that are turned on in cancer and tumor suppressor genes that are turned off to cause cancer.

You might think that we learned about oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes from common cancers like breast cancer and prostate cancer and lung cancer, but you'd be wrong.

We learned about oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes for the first time in that itty-bitty little one percent of cancers called sarcoma.

We're so used to thinking in terms of biology, we think about genes this way.

Darwin didn't, of course; he didn't know about genes.

And he wanted to get away from everybody thinking all the time about genes, and so he said, "Is there another replicator out there on the planet?"

All other theories explaining the big brain, and language, and tool use and all these things that make us unique, are based upon genes.

Language must have been useful for the genes.

It always comes back, as Richard Dawkins complained all that long time ago, it always comes back to genes.

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