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 ...

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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, ...

As if sequencing a full human genome wasn't tricky enough, scientists are now attempting to reconstruct our species' genetic ...

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, ...

But the research topic is, for obvious reasons, controversial. Scientists have largely steered clear of trying to create full ...

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 ...

The U.S. government is launching a project, expected to involve two of Houston's leading ...

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 ...

After leading the Human Genome Project, Collins served as director of the NIH for 12 years (2009-2021). He then became acting White House Science Advisor in the Biden Administration.

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 ...