Irradiated anthrax can be sequenced quickly
Friday, November 13, 2015 - 15:20
in Biology & Nature
These days, mail addressed to selected government offices gets irradiated, in order to kill any biological agents, notably anthrax spores. The downside of this is that viable spores have been needed to identify the anthrax strain, which can be critical to treating those infected. But now new research has shown that full sequences can quickly be determined from irradiated spores.