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Genetic Research, Factory-Style
Ace science writer Gina Kolata embeds in a former beer distribution center in Cambridge that has a second life as a high-tech gene-analyzing factory. Think 10,000 test tubes in line for processing 24/7.
The Broad Institute’s latest challenge: Ebola. With samples from West Africa, technicians and scientists are tracking the virus’s mutations, finding if some strains are deadlier than others, determining if some people are more resistant than others—and why. They also are studying Lassa fever.
“The research is emblematic of a new direction in public health, which uses powerful genetic methods and applies them to entire populations. The aim is to get a detailed picture of disease epidemiology, as the disease is happening,” writes Kolata.
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Related: Life on the Ebola frontline: 'Fear is overpowering even the health workers' – ** The Guardian Poverty Matters Blog (http://jhsph.us3.list-
Related: Obama to urge Congress to loosen purse strings for Ebola fight – ** Reuters (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage.
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