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25 years ago, Francis Collins, MD, PhD, led the international consortium that completed the first draft of the Human Genome Project (HGP), an event marked at an historic White House celebration on ...
To highlight how far the field of genetics has come, we spoke with Dr. Francis Collins, the leader of the Human Genome Project about his incredible career in genetics.
To mark the silver anniversary of this historic moment, GEN invited Collins and Venter to offer their reflections on 25 years of genome science (Francis Collins Reflects on Human Genome Project ...
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Francis Collins. Francis Collins is ... COLLINS: The Human Genome Project is an audacious effort to read the entire sequence of all the human DNA by the year 2005. It's an international effort, ...
Dr. Francis Collins has had quite a career. He’s a physician and geneticist who was director of the International Human Genome Project. It successfully sequenced all three billion letters of our DNA, ...
Dr. Francis Collins may be a brilliant geneticist -- he headed the very successful Human Genome Project among other laudable achievements -- but he has been a disappointing public-health leader ...
GEOFF BENNETT: For decades, Dr. Francis Collins has been at the forefront of the world's most advanced biomedical research. He led the Human Genome Project and then went on to become the longest ...
I’d be willing to bet that most of the U.S. population above the age of 35 has at least heard of the Human Genome Project. They might not be able to tell you much about the specifics of what it ...
Kelly speaks with Dr. Francis Collins, former director of the National Institutes of Health, who oversaw the prominent Human Genome Project. Dr. Collins shares how genetics are most often ...