You describe yourself as a rather obnoxious atheist in your youth ... Picture of Francis Collins courtesy of the National Human Genome Research Institute.

As head of the Human Genome Project at the National Institutes ... I was increasingly more inclined to be an atheist. And, in fact, I would’ve called myself that as a graduate student.

Thanks to the Human Genome Project, researchers have sequenced all 3.2 billion base pairs in the human genome. How did researchers complete this chromosome map years ahead of schedule? Initial ...

The Human Genome Project was an international research project that sequenced all of the genes found in humans. This ambitious project began in 1990 and concluded in 2003. One goal of the project ...