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Red colobus monkeys in Kibale National Park, Uganda. The species are natural hosts of arteriviruses related to SHFV. Tony Goldberg.
One patient couldn’t get rid of their coronavirus infection. The case gave scientists an unprecedented look at viral evolution.
(KNSI) - The Benton County Board of Commissioners will deliberate Tuesday over whether to rezone a 56-acre par...
Processing several hundred samples per week as new strains of virus grow. //end headline wrapper ?> 2019 Novel Coronavirus. Image by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As the coronavirus pandemic continues, concern about new strains of the virus is growing. Two cases of a more contagious variant first identified in the United Kingdom have been found in Wisconsin so far. Four labs in Wisconsin are working to sequence the genomes of virus samples from around the state to identify and track the spread of new variants. Wisconsin’s state hygiene lab is sequencing 200 to 300 sampl...
CREDITS: (MAP) K. FRANKLIN/ SCIENCE; (DATA) GISAID; JOHNS HOPKINS CORONAVIRUS RESOURCE CENTER Since May 2020, Jeffrey Milbrandt has had his systems fine-tuned to sequence 1000 coronavirus samples a week. The director of a major sequencing center at Washington University in St. Louis (WashU), Milbrandt knew months ago that the United States urgently needed to identify and track emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2, the pandemic coronavirus already spreading across the nation. But to date, fewer than 100 coronavirus samples have made it to his sequencers at the McDonnell Genome Institute, and the Un...