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How Latin America’s genomics revolution began — and why the field is under threat

The sequencing of two bacterial species created a legacy that could be at risk without further investment, warn the region’s genomic leaders.
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Daniela Robles-Espinoza was a first-year undergraduate at the National Autonomous University of Mexico’s (UNAM’s) newly established Center for Genomic Sciences in Cuernavaca when she got a front-row seat to the dawn of genomics in her country.

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Nature 615, 754-756 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00794-8

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