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Revolutions in genome sequencing have been used to track COVID-19 in near real time.

 E-Mail IMAGE: Schematic of our proposed evolutionary history of the nCoV clade and putative events leading to the emergence of SARS-CoV-2. view more  Credit: MacLean OA, et al. (2021), Natural selection in the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in bats created a generalist virus and highly capable human pathogen. PLoS Biol 19(3): e3001115. CC-BY... How much did SARS-CoV-2 need to change in order to adapt to its new human host? In a research article published in the open access journal PLOS Biology Oscar MacLean, Spyros Lytras at the University of Glasgow, and colleagues, show that since Dece...

How Britain became the world leader in sequencing the coronavirus genome The UK has sequenced more than 250,000 genomes and helped discover thousands of mutations The battle against Covid-19 is truly global. But in one area the UK is the undisputed world leader - tracing the genetic profile of the virus as it mutates around the world. There are now four "variants of concern" of the virus that causes Covid-19 identified by government advisers. Three have been found in Britain, and the fourth is the Brazil variant identified in people who had travelled to Japan. Yet if it wasn't for the Covi...