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Celebrating World Genome Month

25 April, 2018 by Hamsini Hariharan

Yes, Global Genome Month is real. We did not make it up.

Shambhavi Naik and Hamsini Hariharan discuss why it is important to think of gene editing and how India can leverage it.

Categories Current affairs, Policy Tags Gene Editing, Public Health
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Hamsini Hariharan is a Research Associate with Takshashila's Geostrategy Programme. She is also the Assistant Editor at Pragati, and one of the hosts of the Pragati Podcast. Her research interests include Chinese foreign policy, Asian geopolitics, and India's worldview.

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