Yesterday came word that President Obama nominated the man who led the U.S. government's efforts in the human genome project, Dr. Francis Collins, to head the National Institutes of Health.
The PBS video below is from 2003, but it taught me much about the human genome project and about politics in general. Political drama and a public/private clash underlie this remarkable story of scientific progress. Libertarians will get a kick out of this one.
(P.S.- In case you could not quite place that familiar narrating voice, it is none other than Jeff Goldblum.)
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Earlier: A tour of Craig Venter's genomics research lab
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