Nigeria builds 400,000-sample biobank to cut reliance on foreign disease data

Nigeria is stepping up efforts to reduce its dependence on foreign medical data with the development of a 400,000-sample biobank, a move that could reshape how diseases are studied and treated in Africa’s most populous country. The Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) says its growing repository of biological samples, collected over years of clinical […]

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