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by: Alex Brown, Inside INdiana Business
Posted:
Apr 6, 2021 / 05:58 PM EST
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (Inside INdiana Business) A team of Purdue University scientists is using its expertise in tracking the spread of malaria in Africa to track COVID-19 in Indiana.
The university says the lab, led by Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences Giovanna Carpi, pivoted its efforts to study the virus that causes COVID, as well as its variants, when the pandemic began.
Purdue says the lab studies the genomics of infectious diseases to better understand how they spread.
“We study genomic epidemiology, large-scale genomic studies of communicable disease, and our lab is investing in new sequencing and informatic technologies to study the genomes of infectious diseases to understand transmission,” Carpi said. “This allows us to do sequencing in real time, to conduct genomic surveillance, which has transformed our understanding of the spread