Dr. Jose Nilo G. Binongo, a Filipino academician at Emory University in Atlanta, USA, who studied in Japan and was recognized as Rollins School of Public Health Professor of the Year in 2006 barely two years after taking his post at the university, passionately believes that man’s progress should not be constrained by what is written in his DNA. Below is an essay he wrote entitled, "After all, there is no gene for fate".