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With DNA, you have to be able to tell which genes are turned on or off. Current DNA sequencing cannot do that. The next generation of DNA sequencing needs to be able to do this. If somebody invents this, then we can start to very precisely identify cures for diseases.

There's already a lot of active research going on using the Crispr technology to fix diseases like Duchenne muscular dystrophy or cystic fibrosis or Huntington's disease. They're all diseases that have known genetic causes, and we now have the technology that can repair those mutations to provide, we hope, patients with a normal life.

Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases.

Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.

Our understanding of how DNA informs our health and development is advancing at an incredible pace.

Even if we never cure a single disease, the Human Genome Project and other ventures will have been worth it.

There have been lots of stories written about all the hype over getting the genome done and the letdown of not discovering lots of cures right after.

Cancer affects everyone, and it's up to all of us to support the important research that can one day make a much sought-after cure a reality.

I hope that the image of gene therapy is changing. It seems to be.

A lot of medicines are not there to cure diseases. That's fine - drugs that keep people alive who wouldn't otherwise be alive are useful. What I object to is the drug companies' advertising, which you see everywhere in the U.S., which claims that they are curing diseases when they're not.