We reached a point where ... the need for research has essentially shrunk to zero. Francis Collins More Quotes by Francis Collins More Quotes From Francis Collins There is no doubt that genome editing technologies hold huge potential. Francis Collins health-news What this study says quite definitively for diabetes is the vast majority of hereditary risk variants are in fact these common ones, and the rare ones, while they pop up here and there, are a much smaller contribution. Francis Collins health-news This is about all of us, participants will be true partners, not subjects, not patients. Francis Collins health-news Inducing behavior change for diet and exercise and is extremely difficult, and these subjects were not offered any support, even if they thought they should do something about it there was no assistance. Francis Collins health-news The Googles and the Apples and the Qualcomms are certainly paying close attention to the potential of this. Francis Collins technology That's a high priority early on, that doesn’t necessarily mean all of the data is in one place being operated by the same software. Francis Collins health-news You want individual participants to have control over their data and have a dynamic opportunity to change the level at which they are willing to give access to possible research partners. Francis Collins health-news It is something that can be achieved but obviously there is a lot that needs to be done. Francis Collins science It's going to be a hard trial, it's possible we may have to move some of the effort to Sierra Leone, which is unfortunately in not quite such a good position as Liberia. Francis Collins health-news It may, at this point, be hard to find 27,000 people at risk, it is going to be challenging. Francis Collins health-news That is the default and certainly the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) has that particular pathway available. If it is not possible to get the rigorous human data, it is still possible a vaccine could be approved. Francis Collins health-news I became an atheist because, as a graduate student studying quantum physics, life seemed to be reducible to second-order differential equations. Mathematics, chemistry and physics had it all. And I didn't see any need to go beyond that. Francis Collins chemistry mathematics physics life I actually do not believe that there are any collisions between what I believe as a Christian, and what I know and have learned about as a scientist. I think there's a broad perception that that's the case, and that's what scares many scientists away from a serious consideration of faith. Francis Collins think serious faith believe A cardinal principle that we must not stray from - no exceptions - is that your genetic information is your business in terms of who sees it. Nobody should be gaining access to that information without your explicit permission, and nobody should be requiring you to take a genetic test unless you decide that that's what you want to do. Francis Collins nobody you information business Genes are effectively one-dimensional. If you write down the sequence of A, C, G and T, that's kind of what you need to know about that gene. But proteins are three-dimensional. They have to be because we are three-dimensional, and we're made of those proteins. Otherwise we'd all sort of be linear, unimaginably weird creatures. Francis Collins weird down know you The brain is the most complicated organ in the universe. We have learned a lot about other human organs. We know how the heart pumps and how the kidney does what it does. To a certain degree, we have read the letters of the human genome. But the brain has 100 billion neurons. Each one of those has about 10,000 connections. Francis Collins know universe brain heart My own area of expertise is the genetics of human disease. I was fortunate to be part of the team that found the genes for cystic fibrosis, and Huntington's disease and neurofibromatosis. Francis Collins human own my-own team As a Christian, but also as a scientist responsible for overseeing the Human Genome Project, one of my concerns has been the limits on applications of our understanding of the genome. Should there be limits? I think there should. I think the public has expressed their concern about ways this information might be misused. Francis Collins think understanding limits christian I don't have a problem with the concept that miracles might occasionally occur at moments of great significance, where there is a message being transmitted to us by God Almighty. But as a scientist, I set my standards for miracles very high. Francis Collins great moments problem god
