WASHINGTON, July 15 -- Sen. Mike Rounds issued the following press release:
U.S. Senators Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) today introduced legislation to expedite scientific research on diseases through specimen collection. This is the first piece of legislation introduced using feedback from Rounds and Heinrich's American Science Acceleration Project (ASAP) (https://www.rounds.senate.gov/ASAP), a national initiative to support making American science 10 times faster by 2030.
The Homestake AI Act would establish a pilot program in the Department of Energy (DOE) focused on the collection, cataloguing and sequencing of whole genomes and metabolites from samples collected in unique locations. This includes locations exposed...