Identifying and Analyzing Every Viral Infection from a Single Drop of Blood

Identifying and Analyzing Every Viral Infection from a Single Drop of Blood
Jun-10-2015 0 comments Cube Biosystems

 

Symian-VirusLed by a team from Harvard, researchers have leveraged the power of immunoprecipitation and Next-Gen Sequencing to develop a method that can identify every viral infection you've ever had using only 1 µl of blood.

 

 

 
 
Science: Comprehensive serological profiling of human populations using a synthetic human virome

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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