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South African genomics projects put 10% of budgets under community control
Key Takeaways
- South African researchers described a genomics benefit-sharing model that allocates 10% of project budgets to community-selected initiatives.
- The framework was presented at the World Congress of Bioethics and detailed in a Nature Communications paper led largely by African researchers.
- The approach gives funders and institutions a concrete template for embedding ethical reciprocity into project design.
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DT Editorial Team··via phys.org