When cause resides in experience, as in a communicable infection or a severe injury, it is an
extrinsic cause, and it overwhelms the normal homeostatic processes of health. During the …

On a June day nearly 10 years ago, the leaders of the United States and the United
Kingdom, accompanied by the leaders of the public and private teams deciphering the …

Being in charge of that part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that is focused on
getting the Human Genome Project done involves funding the right people and holding them …

Good public health, like all good medicine, rests on empirical data of high quality. If we have
records of the incidence of disease, and of how this responds to interventions, we will be …

The science of genetics is grounded in the principles of inheritance outlined over 150 years
ago. Almost 100 years later, the physical bases for these principles were articulated in the …

The year 2000 marked both the start of the new millennium and the announcement that the
vast majority of the human genome had been sequenced. Much work remains to understand …

The number of genes identified as factors in human disease has exploded in the past
decade, but the volume and the tentative nature of the information are a problem for …

It's now been 10 years since humans deciphered the digital code that, in a very real sense,
defines us as a species. It's hard to overestimate the significance of that achievement but …

By 2005, or sooner, the three billion code letters of a representative human genome will be
known, along with the locations of all of its genes. Even today, however, the work is greatly …

This is the first issue of the first volume of Inquiry in the 21st century, and changes in
centuries (not to mention millennia) do war? rant notice. The next few months also mark the …