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The Human Genome Project has given us a genetic parts list.

During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA could influence the study of genetics and I was an early and active proponent of the Human Genome Sequencing Project.

My work is focused on using data to tell stories and explore our common humanity.

All my life I've been looking for diversity.

Sequencing - the careful striptease by which you reveal information to the reader - matters in an article, but it is absolutely essential to a book.

If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.

Genome sequencing has changed taxonomy.

The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don't understand.

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.

I started a lecture series that was inspired by my reporting on race in America. The 'Black in America' series launched on CNN in 2007 as an opportunity to freshen the national conversation on race.