Francis Collins
Francis Collins
Francis Sellers Collinsis an American physician-geneticist noted for his discoveries of disease genes and his leadership of the Human Genome Project. He is director of the National Institutes of Healthin Bethesda, Maryland, USA...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth14 April 1950
CountryUnited States of America
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it's hard to overstate the importance of reading our own instruction book and that's what the human genome project is all about.
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It's a huge deal. We now have the instruction book of our closest relative.
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[Decoding the human genome sequence] is the most significant undertaking that we have mounted so far in an organized way in all of science. I believe that reading our blueprints, cataloguing our own instruction book, will be judged by history as more significant than even splitting the atom or going to the moon.
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As an atheist evolving to agnosticism, and seeking answers to whether or not belief in God is potentially rational, my life was turned upside down 35 years ago by reading C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity.
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These revelations arrive almost five years early from the original predictions of not having this information until 2005, and here we are. We have the first draft of our own book of life and we've read it from cover to cover, and we've discovered some pretty amazing surprises,
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The time is right to bring the full power of genomics to bear on the problem of cancer. Waiting another two years would have been too long. The biological research planets are aligned.
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Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.
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We can peek into evolution's lab notebook and see what went on there.
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We need effective legislation to make those kinds of misuse illegal,
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Four years ago, we took down the book called Homo sapiens, ... Today, we take down the book next to it on the shelf.
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FTIs, originally developed for cancer, are capable of reversing the dramatic nuclear structure abnormalities that are the hallmark of cells from children with progeria,
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Sequencing the chimp genome is a historic achievement that is destined to lead to many more exciting discoveries with implications for human health,
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More than 300 genes have been implicated in the diabolical transformation of normal cells into cancer cells, and that has led to major insights into cause, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure.
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What a profound responsibility it is to do this work. Historians will consider this a turning point.