Native Biodata News Today

Join us for an exclusive Native Bidaské as host Levi Rickert interviews Joseph Yracheta, M.S. (Pūrepecha – Mexican Indigenous)., shedding light on the $9 million NIH grant awarded to Stanford University and Native BioData Consortium. Yracheta is a distinguished figure of Pūrepecha descent with a Master’s in Pharmacogenomics from the University of Washington. Stanford University and Native BioData Consortium have received a $9 million NIH grant to establish a...

Two perspectives pieces published in Nature Microbiology by an international team of non-Indigenous and Indigenous researchers lay out a framework for ethical microbiome research practices that include Indigenous communities and ensure that these communities reap the benefits from their contributions.

Growing up on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, tribal member Burt Dillabaugh didn’t see a lot of people involved and working in the

The Arizona Youth Identity Project, led by ASU Professor Nilda Flores-Gonzalez, aims to find out what’s driving young voters to the polls. According to their recently released report, more than one-third of young adults identified as independent.

March 4, 2021 at 6:30 am It’s been about 20 years since scientists unveiled a rough draft of the human genome. This is all of the DNA found in a human cell. Think of it like a genetic instruction book for the body. Creating that rough draft was like a medical moonshot. It held out the promise that doctors might soon be able look at someone’s DNA and prescribe the right medicines for their illness. They might even prevent certain diseases. That promise is known as precision medicine. But it ...