{"id":120969,"date":"2021-03-28T20:23:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T03:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/a-dna-sequencing-revolution-helped-us-fight-covid-what-else-can-it-do"},"modified":"2021-03-28T20:23:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T03:23:53","slug":"a-dna-sequencing-revolution-helped-us-fight-covid-what-else-can-it-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/a-dna-sequencing-revolution-helped-us-fight-covid-what-else-can-it-do","title":{"rendered":"A DNA Sequencing Revolution Helped Us Fight Covid. What Else Can It Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-dna-sequencing-revolution-helped-us-fight-covid-what-else-can-it-do2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And unexpectedly, Covid-19 has proved to be the catalyst. \u201cWhat the pandemic has done is accelerate the adoption of genomics into infectious disease by several years,\u201d says deSouza, the Illumina chief executive. He also told me he believes that the pandemic has accelerated the adoption of genomics into society more broadly \u2014 suggesting that quietly, in the midst of chaos and a global catastrophe, the age of cheap, rapid sequencing has arrived.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Ultrafast and ultracheap sequencing could reshape the future of health care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And unexpectedly, Covid-19 has proved to be the catalyst. \u201cWhat the pandemic has done is accelerate the adoption of genomics into infectious disease by several years,\u201d says deSouza, the Illumina chief executive. He also told me he believes that the pandemic has accelerated the adoption of genomics into society more broadly \u2014 suggesting that quietly, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120969","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}