Dr. Francis Collins - The director of the NIH on the promise of the human genome and what happens when you mix faith and science.

Newsweek

In your last book, you had lots of optimistic things to say about the use of genomic information in medicine. Yet Craig Venter, who led the private effort to sequence the human genome, said recently that the Human Genome Project produced close to zero in terms of discoveries that can help sick people.

A substantial list of medical advances have occurred in the last 10 years [thanks to the genome project], but they have not directly affected the medical care of most people so far because they’re mostly about rare conditions.