Cost, availability and sample preservation are the main concerns but progress is rapid.

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Advances in the field are revolutionary but require safeguards to curb misuse.

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‘Rare’ diseases are anything but. And with cheaper DNA sequencing, patients’ lives will be transformed.

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Collecting DNA data is not much help without the key to understanding what it all means. And that key is centralised health records.

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Unless people are brought into conversations about genetic discrimination dystopian scenarios may come to pass.

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Cheap, portable sequencers in poor countries could be key to identifying and halting emerging diseases before they have a chance to become a pandemic.

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Cheaper DNA sequencing promises a world of health benefits. But to realise these, careful and sensitive storage of DNA data is vital.

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COVID-19 triggered a massive increase in government debt, mainly in low-income countries. But it would be economically wrong to put all the blame on COVID.

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If the government of Nepal is not too careful with debt diplomacy, it might face a similar fate to Sri Lanka and Pakistan.

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Pakistan faces a wave of problems on multiple fronts, but its growing debt can no longer be overlooked as inflation soars and foreign reserves crumble.

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