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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is choosing an influential scientist who helped unravel the human genetic code — and is known for finding common ground between belief in god and science — to head the National Institutes of Health.
Obama called Dr. Francis Collins “one of the top scientists in the world” in announcing his nomination Wednesday.
Collins led the Human Genome Project, which along with a competing private company, mapped the genetic code — or, as he famously called it, “the book of human life.”
