GENOMES ARISING (Republished)
<p>In 1987, 10-year-old Segun Fatumo was on the streets of Lagos, Nigeria, hawking palm oil, yams, and pepper each day after school to help put food on the table. In the evenings, he and his family crowded into a two-room dwelling without running water or electricity. He knew nothing of the plan being hatched by U.S. and U.K. geneticists to sequence the human genome.</p>
<p>Thirteen years later, when researchers completed the draft sequence of the human genome, Fatumo — then an undergraduate studying computer science — heard all about it. “I knew the project would change our world,” he recalls. What he didn’t realize at the time was how it would change his life.</p>
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