Fantastic Voyage

"Francis Collins, head of the National Institute of Health. hopes to begin a human brain-mapping project that would cost $300 million a year. Reading about the gene-patenting case before the Supreme Court right now, I was reminded of my Washingtonian interview with him in April of 1995. He was head of NIH's program to sequence the entire human genome - later brilliantly and successfully completed. To me, it was wildly exciting. Here's my take on him then ..." - Diana McLellan