Taras Oleksyk

To ensure that the benefits of biomedical research are shared globally, we must overcome the barriers preventing the establishment of national genomic projects in underrepresented regions by navigating the ethical, legal and financial complexities of launching these initiatives.

Large-scale biological data repositories, particularly when deployed as single, non-mirrored instances or governed within narrow contexts, face structural vulnerabilities, from cyberattacks to funding disruptions. We propose a hybrid framework that integrates federated and decentralized models to ensure the resilience, sustainability and FAIR/CARE stewardship of scientific data as a global public good.

The Red Dirt When our plane landed in Windhoek after a 24-hour delay, we were exhausted. In front of us was a four-hour trip to the Cheetah Conservation Fund site near the city of Ojiwarongo. We were in a strange country, at night, on barely illuminated roads and driving on the wrong side of the road.