{"id":15536,"date":"2009-10-15T15:32:48","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T15:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_pope_names_nih_director_to_vatican_think_tank\/"},"modified":"2009-10-15T15:32:48","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T15:32:48","slug":"rns_pope_names_nih_director_to_vatican_think_tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15536","title":{"rendered":"RNS: Pope names NIH director to Vatican think tank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, to the Vatican&#8217;s Pontifical Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>Collins, 59, is the geneticist who led the Human Genome Project, the international research project that mapped out the body&#8217;s complete genetic code in 2003. Among his other accomplishments, he was part of the team that in 1989 identified the gene causing cystic fibrosis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2009-10-14-PopeNIH_N.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, to the Vatican&#8217;s Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Collins, 59, is the geneticist who led the Human Genome Project, the international research project that mapped out the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15536\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42,419,154,636,108,364,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-evangelicals","category-other-churches","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}