The Promise and Payoff of Rare Diseases Research

Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the National Institutes of Health, led the successful
effort to complete the Human Genome Project, a complex multidisciplinary scientific enterprise to map
and sequence human DNA…Continue Reading, ‘The Promise and Payoff of Rare Diseases Research’

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