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Sabina Chioma Eze is a researcher in zoology, medical and forensic entomology. She is an assistant lecturer at the Federal University of Health Sciences, Otukpo (FUHSO), Benue State, and a graduate ...

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The Cameroonian professor made the Time most influential list in 2025 and saw the project he co-founded receive $100m for its virus detection work. Now he is on a mission to transform Africa’s genomic ...

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