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Health Watch: Gene sequencing work receives funding to track COVID variants Ryan Osborne © Provided by Fairbanks KTVF Gene sequencing work done at UAF, UAA, and the Alaska State Virology lab tracks the spread and mutation of COVID-19. FAIRBANKS, Alaska (KTVF) -A team of University of Alaska biomedical researchers will join a federally funded effort to improve the tracking of COVID-19 variants throughout the state, as The National Institutes of Health provides a $770,000 grant to support the effort. Dr. Devin Drown, Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks explained, “This is a COVID sequencing project, and so the idea here is to sequence as many positive COVID cases, and sequence the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the hopes of generating information about variants. COVID variants are of keen interest right now. We’re trying to understand how they can be more transmissible, more virulent, causing increases in cases across the country, acro

United statesUniversity of alaska fairbanksUniversity of alaska anchorageEric bortzAlaska state virology labNational institutes of healthUniversity of alaskaAlaska native tribal health consortiumSouthcentral foundationAlaska state virologyNational institutesDevin drownAssistant professorAlaska fairbanksAlaska anchorageAlaska native tribal health