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 was hiding in the jeno. one of the things, that her owed tear things like diabetes, there might be a few genes, and

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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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and ive been doing a lot of work with francis collins, the head of n.i.h., around how we take the human genome that we've mapped, in part thanks to the good work of francis and others, so that we are able to not just cure diseases generally, but figure out what exactly do you in your particular body need in order to keep it running well. were harnessing technology to develop cleaner sources of energy, and save our planet in the process. were unraveling the mysteries of the human brain, unlocking secrets of the universe. in fact, just last month, commander scott kelly returned from an almost a year-long stay on the international space station. some of you may have read about that. he conducted countless experiments, and he also served as an experiment himself. his identical twin brother, mark, who is an astronaut, as well -- mark stayed home during this entire time that scott was up in the air, and that meant that nasa could study the two of them side by side to gain insights into how a long-term occupation in space changes your body and your operating systems. it turned out, initially,