Indigenous students take on genomics in new research program

A new summer internship at Simon Fraser University seeks to steep 20 Indigenous students from across Canada and the U.S. in genomic sciences.
In part, the program — seven iterations old, but being offered for the first time in Canada — is intended to help aspiring Indigenous scientists understand how genomics can be used to address health, environmental and political problems in their communities, according to the university. But as Kim TallBear, a professor at the University of Albe