Francis Collins has overseen some of the most revolutionary science of the last few decades. He led the Human Genome Projec t ...

Monday, July 7, 2025 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app and KPBS Passport. WISDOM KEEPERS explores the ...

News about Francis S. Collins, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

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 ...

Review of foreign scientists from countries like China began even before three Chinese scientists in Michigan were caught ...

If there’s anything the Trump administration has gotten unequivocally right (besides inadvertently helping Mark Carney become prime minister of Canada), it’s this: Modern science, for all its ...

Synthetic Human Genome (SynHG) project sparks fears that rogue scientists could create enhanced ‘super humans’ in decades to come ...

He claimed that Gavi had “ignored the science” about vaccine safety. He had already dismissed all seventeen members of the ...

Antivaxxer or ‘highly capable’? Ex-Harvard Medical School expert tapped by RFK Jr. for vaccine panel defies easy labels Some say the rush to categorize Martin Kulldorff underscores the intense ...

The virologist, awarded for his part in the discovery of the hepatitis C virus, has helped save the lives of millions of ...

Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) asked Monarez, if President Trump ordered her to do something that was against the law, whether ...

CDC director nominee Susan Monarez, PhD, spent much of her Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday avoiding direct answers to questions from Democratic and Republican members of the Senate Health ...