Christmas Tree Genetics

One scientist’s inventive tools for repairing toxic RNA now reveal ways to fight pandemic coronaviruses, which store their genetic information in RNA. Scripps Research, Florida chemist Matthew Disney, PhD, takes you inside his lab’s fight against COVID-19.

In this video, The Physiological Society speak to Dr Thushan de Silva, Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Sheffield and Honorary Consultant Physician in Infectious Diseases, about why we would want to sequence the genome of coronavirus and how it is useful for tracking the spread and mutations of the virus.

This video describes how whole genome sequencing is used to track pathogens as they spread from person to person on the path to a foodborne or infectious disease outbreak.