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The next chapter for African genomics

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Graduate students at an infectious-disease lab in Ede, Nigeria, use the gene-editing tool CRISPR to detect Lassa virus in blood samples. Credit: Amy Maxmen

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Nature 578, 350-354 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00454-1

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