Indigenous knowledge helps biotech find new drugs. This grad student wants those companies to give back

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May 1, 2025, 12:50 pm159 pts
As a descendant of an Indigenous Amazonian tribe, Maria Astolfi was concerned about research she conducted as a graduate student at UC Berkeley involving an extract of a plant long used for medicinal purposes by the Mapuche peoples of Chile.

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