Who should get paid for nature’s sequenced genes?

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Vanilla is grown in tropical regions of the world.
Photo: Menahem KAHANA / AFP/File
Source: AFP

Much of the vanilla that flavors our ice cream today is artificial, derived from the genetic signature of a plant that hundreds of years ago was known only to an Indigenous Mexican tribe.

The plant’s sequenced genomic information, available on public databases, was used as the basis for a synthetic flavoring that today competes with vanilla grown in several countries, mainly by small-scale…

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