{"id":106537,"date":"2020-05-04T17:44:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T00:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/asu-scientific-team-finds-new-unique-mutation-in-coronavirus-study"},"modified":"2020-05-04T17:44:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T00:44:34","slug":"asu-scientific-team-finds-new-unique-mutation-in-coronavirus-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/asu-scientific-team-finds-new-unique-mutation-in-coronavirus-study","title":{"rendered":"ASU scientific team finds new, unique mutation in coronavirus study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/asu-scientific-team-finds-new-unique-mutation-in-coronavirus-study2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To trace the trail of the virus worldwide, Lim\u2019s team is using a new technology called next-generation sequencing at ASU\u2019s Genomics Facility, to rapidly read through all 30,000 chemical letters of the SARS-CoV-2 genetic code, called a genome.<\/p>\n<p>Each sequence is deposited into a worldwide gene bank, run by a nonprofit scientific organization called GISAID. To date, over 16,000 SARS-CoV-2 sequences have been deposited GISAID\u2019s EpiCoVTM Database. The sequence data shows that SARS-CoV-2 originated a single source from Wuhan, China, while many of the first Arizona cases analyzed showed travel from Europe as the most likely source.<\/p>\n<p>Now, using a pool of 382 nasal swab samples obtained from possible COVID-19 cases in Arizona, Lim\u2019s team has identified a SARS-CoV-2 mutation that had never been found before\u2014where 81 of the letters have vanished, permanently deleted from the genome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To trace the trail of the virus worldwide, Lim\u2019s team is using a new technology called next-generation sequencing at ASU\u2019s Genomics Facility, to rapidly read through all 30,000 chemical letters of the SARS-CoV-2 genetic code, called a genome. Each sequence is deposited into a worldwide gene bank, run by a nonprofit scientific organization called GISAID. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}