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olfactory receptors—cells in the nose that detect odor molecules—make up the largest single family in the human genome. Out of around 19,000 genes, Axel and Buck found, nearly 1,000—5 percent—are olfactory receptors.

Três ideias profundamente desestabilizadoras ricochetearam por todo o século XX e se dividiram em três partes desiguais: o átomo, o byte e o gene.

Tillie Olsen wrote: “In the twenty years I bore and reared my children . . . the simplest circumstances for creation did not exist.” It was a physical problem, a time problem; it was also a question of selfhood. “The obligation to be physically attractive and patient and nurturing and docile and sensitive and deferential . . . contradicts and must

O genoma como uma máquina autorreplicadora coopta a fisiologia, o metabolismo, o comportamento e a identidade de uma célula, e o resultado é uma doença que muda de forma e, apesar de avanços significativos, desafia nossa capacidade de tratá-la ou curá-la.

In Savannah, she recommended that members of the writing workshop eat at the Grey Market, where she worked part-time. It is a New York bodega-inspired offshoot of the Grey, Mashama Bailey’s fine-dining Savannah restaurant. Bailey, a Black woman who moved between Georgia and New York throughout her childhood, learned to cook first from the women in