Why genetic research must be more diverse, by Keolu Fox (Aina Castelló)

Keolu Fox is a Hawaiian that when he was little he was curious about a illness, leprosy, that affect a Hawaiian colony, Kakaupapa.

He wanted to know more about this disease that affect that community. When he grow up realizes that all of the genetic medical investigations are only with European ancestry, specifically a 95% and only a 1% are with tribes. He proposes to make a genetic research more native. So for that shows us a little “computer” that can do the same function us in the laboratory with genomes sequenced but not with the same precision.

Now we have the technology to sequence the leprosy bacteria because of this. IndiGenomics is science for the people by the people, so Hawaiian colonies want his own research institute for his experiments and the education of the indigenous next generation scientists. 

In conclusion he wants  a genetic investigation for the Hawaiian people, because there’s not much investigation.

Aina Castelló