Rounds Proposes Extremophile DNA Stash at Homestake to Support Disease Research

Rounds Proposes Extremophile DNA Stash at Homestake to Support Disease Research

Republican Senator M. Michael Rounds may have a straight-up good idea. The only thing he gets wrong is the title: what Rounds and his Democratic co-sponsor Senator Mike Heinrich from New Mexico title the “Homestake AI Act” isn’t focused on building Ultron under the Black Hills but rather on establishing “an extremophile whole genome sequencing initiative“. What’s that, Mike? The Homestake AI Act would establish a pilot program in the Department …