I was really raised in a gender-neutral household. I always knew I was a girl, but it never occurred to me that there was a limitation.

Incorporating genetics into a platform with the reach of ResearchKit will accelerate insights into illness and disease even further.

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

I think that the idea of people wanting to steal your genome remains a little bit in the world of science fiction. It's a new technology, and it's new science that people are becoming familiar with. It's critical for us to do everything we can to enable the privacy level that people want.

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

Milan, for me, is a city of discovery. You can find some amazing gardens behind some great houses; I also love finding beautiful galleries and incredible shops, but you have to explore. And the food is amazing.

I've loved physics from a young age, but I've also been interested in all sorts of big questions, from philosophy to evolution and neuroscience. And what those fields have in common is that they all aim to capture certain aspects of the same underlying universe.

Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.