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How diversity in science can benefit communities

By MARLEM RIVERA
FEB. 28, 2019

The San Diego Union-Tribune

I am a scientist at Illumina, and I get to do amazing things. Last year, I was on a team that produced the first Atlantic bottlenose dolphin DNA sequence, findings that could support conservation. I love my work, but getting here wasn’t easy, and I couldn’t have done it alone. I needed my many families to help me through.