Institutes of health in bethesda, maryland is dr. Francis collins, National Institutes of health director. Thank you very much for joining us here on the newsmakers program. Dr. Collins glad to be with you, and great to have a chance to chat at the beginning of a new decade. Steve joining us with the question is Kimberly Leonard, who covers Health Policy issues for the washington examiner, and Health Reporter Jayne Odonnell of usa today. I want to begin because this june marks the 20th anniversary of decoding the genes that make up the human body. Two decades later, where are we . Dr. Collins my goodness. Where do i begin . It has been an amazing couple decades of taking that own insight into our human instruction book and beginning to figure out how to read it, written in this strange language with just four letters in the alphabet, and how to apply that to some basic lessons about how life works and how we can use that information to advance medical care. If you look at the place whe
Institutes of health in bethesda, maryland is dr. Francis collins, National Institutes of health director. To be with glad you, and great to have a chance to chat at the beginning of a new decade. Steve joining us with the question is Kimberly Leonard, who covers Health Policy issues for the washington examiner, and Health Reporter Jayne Odonnell of usa today. I want to begin because this june marks the 20th anniversary of decoding the genes that make up the human body. Two decades later, where are we . Dr. Collins where do i begin . It has been taking that own insight into our human instruction book and beginning to figure out how to read it, written in this strange language with just four letters in the alphabet, and how to apply that to some basic lessons about how life works and how we can use that information to advance medical care. If you look at the place where genomics has become central to biomedical research, you cannot find a place where that is not the case. Everyone is us
Dr. Collins my goodness. Where do i begin . It has been an amazing couple decades of taking that own insight into our human instruction book and beginning to figure out how to read it, written in this strange language with just four letters in the alphabet, and how to apply that to some basic lessons about how life works and how we can use that information to advance medical care. If you look at the place where genomics has become central to biomedical research, you cannot find a place where that is not the case. Everyone is using a variety of approaches to understand phenomenal questions about what cells do and how the brain works. What the micro biome is all about, the micro biomes that live in and on us. In terms of clinical applications, the most obvious one is in cancer. Now because we know cancer is a disease of the genome, it comes about because of misspellings in dna. We have the ability for individuals to say, why exactly are those cells doing what they shouldnt and how we sho
That it is that we are pushing back against. We are confident the iraq he people want the United States to continue to be there to fight the counterterror campaign. We will continue to do all the things we need to do to keep america safe. Hasnt been a change in u. S. Response where we will longer go after the enemy in the field . We wont go after irans control. There is a strategy that has been several years in the making now. We have been working on it. It has been a diplomatic strategy and economic strategy. With respect to targets, President Trump talked about 52 targets tonight. That is not new. To the peoplelear running around today and running it into the ground, we made clear to them that we would not respond just against these proxy forces they run in yemen, syria, iraq and lebanon. We make clear it cost would be brought home to the leadership regime in iraq. We would not just attacked their efforts, we would respond and away for the decisionmakers that put american lives at st
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