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To help mitigate the world’s biodiversity crisis, Arizona State University’s Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory has recruited Harris Lewin, a prominent genome scientist currently spearheading one of biology’s most ambitious ‘moonshot’ goals, a complete DNA catalog of the genetic code for life on Earth by the end of this decade.
Lewin leads the Earth BioGenome Project, a coalition of worldwide scientists and 50-plus ongoing projects that has a primary goal of completing, high-quality DNA reference genomes – the gold standard of an organism’s complete DNA genetic code and sequence – for all higher organisms on Earth, an estimated 1.8 million species.
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