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An international team of researchers led by Harvard’s Pardis Sabeti (photo 1) have sequenced the genomes of hundreds of samples of Lassa fever (image 2) and are using that data to try to unlock the virus’ secrets. “Most new Ebola patients get the disease from other patients, so the focus needs to be on isolation to break that chain," said Kristian Andersen (photo 3), a former postdoctoral fellow at the Broad Institute. “But for Lassa it’s very different.”

Genetic sleuthing

Sabeti team applies Ebola methods to shed light on spread of Lassa fever

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DateSeptember 15, 2015

A global team from Harvard University, the Broad Institute, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (part of the National Institutes of Health), and many other institutions sequenced more than 200 additional genomes from Ebola virus samples to capture the fullest picture yet of how the Ebola virus is transmitted and how it changed over the long outbreak.

Sequencing Ebola’s secrets

Study provides deep insights into course, makeup of deadly disease

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DateJune 19, 2015May 17, 2019