by Nancy | 26 Oct 2016 | Media, Microbes
I would love to take part in a challenge like this one! In the UK they are handing over 8 million pounds to market the solution of the winner of challenge that will develop the next-generation diagnostic tool that will be used to determine if and which antibiotics are...
by Nancy | 10 Oct 2015 | Microbes, Molecular Biology, science
The challenge in detecting a set of viruses simultaneously in clinical samples lies in the large variety of their genomes, i.e. there is no gene that is present in all viruses. With the advent of new sequencing technologies, including high throughput parallel sequence...