Tag Archives: metagenomics

Tracking Chikungunya: New Study Traces Outbreak Path

A team of scientists in Brazil, along with collaborators in the U.S. and Europe, used diagnostics and metagenomic sequencing to reconstruct the transmission path of a recent outbreak of chikungunya virus in Maceió. We were honored to donate some lab … more »

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Spread of Chikungunya Virus East/Central/South African Genotype in Northeast Brazil

October 2017 Authors: Antonio Charlys da Costa, Julien Thézé, Shirley Cavalcante Vasconcelos Komninakis, Rodrigo Lopes Sanz-Duro, et al. Info: Scientists in Brazil and collaborators in the U.S. and Europe traced the transmission path of a recent chikungunya virus outbreak. They … more »

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Improving microbial fitness in the mammalian gut by in vivo temporal functional metagenomics

March 2015 Authors: Stephanie J Yaung, Luxue Deng, Ning Li, Jonathan L Braff, George M Church, Lynn Bry, Harris H Wang, Georg K Gerber Info: In this Molecular Systems Biology paper, researchers from Harvard and Columbia discuss the use of … more »

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