dr. francis collins of the nia. >> you were watching "inside story". i'm ray suarez. we're talking about medicine's future with dr. francis collins, the director of the national institutes of health. you may recall that earlier in the century, collins raced to find the sequence for the human an jeno. and it was completed more than a decade ago. it was supposed to hold great promise for untold suffering. has it lived up to its promise? and what do we have to be careful about as we move forward. at the time, it was a celebratory move, an exciting home. and now here we are more than 12 years later. have those codes, the cs, the as, the ts, the gs, opened up everything that you would have thought by 2016? >> it's possible these days, when you make pricks to be held accountable because you make a power point presentation and it gets saved somewhere, and i went back and looked at the talks that i gave in 2023 about what we might expect. and i'm happy to say that i was pretty close to right, but there were some surprise that we hadn't anticipated because we do not know what w

dr. francis collins with the institute of health and national research institute. i'm ray suarez, thanks for tuning in, and let me tell you, there are just three more editions of "inside story," so keep watching and good night. ♪victories for ted cruz and bernie sanders in the race to the white house. you are watching al jazeera live from doha. in the next half hour, one of libya's two ribble governs steps down for the sake of political unity. iceland's prime minister becomes the first major casualty from the fallout of the panama papers. >>> and the international criminal court throws out the case again kenya's deputy president based upon insufficient

dr. francis collins, sat down with ray suarez to discuss precision initiatives. it's meant to collect data to help the nih do a better job on disease prevention and management. all of this, when you go to the doctor with ailments, what they prescribed is based on the average response of the average person. response of the average person, and most of us are not all that average, and we're better at determining what those are, and how that will improve outcomes. so it's partly about your inheritance, and your geno, and that's something that we're able to measure, but it's about your environmental exposures, and about your lifestyle. it's about what's happening in your life at that point, as far as social determinants of health. putting all of those things together, we, with a very large number of individuals, when we measure those things, ought to be able to figure out what's the way for not just the average person, but for each of us to maintain health? >> nearly 1 million americans are being asked to participate in the initiative. >>> up next, crackdown on counte

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