Successful weight management really means a permanent change in lifestyle - and success in this arena provides that person with a great opportunity to model that behavior for friends and family.

What does it take to get people interested, what does it take to get people engaged, what does it take to get them to give a biospecimen? What does it take to get people like Jim [Ostell] to get interested and engaged, versus someone like my mother?

A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run.

I think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome.

The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome. He can be worshipped in the cathedral or in the laboratory. His creation is majestic, awesome, intricate, and beautiful.

By committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy

Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.