Monday at the International Congress of Genetics "Same ol' genetic racism, new biocolonialism," says Dr Krystal Tsosie, a member of the Navajo Nation, who realised that her cancer research was unlikely to help her people. So she founded the Native BioData Consortium – to ensure that Indigenous people benefit from their DNA and data. Her research has been featured in the NYT. Capturing the genetic code of every species in the Tree of Life. Mark Blaxter's UK team have sequenced their first thousand species as part of a bold project to read the genome of every species on Earth.

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