Sequencing the Ebola virus genome

Witness History - En podkast av BBC World Service

When the deadly Ebola virus broke out in West Africa in 2014, scientists in the USA set to work analysing it. What they discovered would eventually lead to a treatment. Pardis Sabeti is a virologist at Harvard University and leads the team who sequenced the Ebola virus genome - she has been speaking to Ibby Caputo for Witness History.Photo: Pardis Sabeti (front row, right) with some of the team who sequenced the virus in the lab.

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