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And in the case of abandoning mRNA vaccine research, it may lead to lives needlessly lost, whether due to potential medicines untapped or to pandemic unpreparedness.

Badenoch said it was "absurd" the UK was leaving "vital resources untapped" while "neighbours like Norway extracted them from the same sea bed".

Washington has pushed for greater access to India's farm sector for years, seeing it as a major untapped market.

The same company is also trying to get approval to develop Australia's biggest untapped gas reserves in the Browse Basin, further up the coast.

It sits above the Galilee Basin, one of the largest untapped coal reserves in the world, a 247,000-sq-km region containing more than 30 billion tonnes of coal.