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Studying the Genes Behind COVID-19 | Michigan Medicine

Studying the Genes Behind COVID-19 | Michigan Medicine

What the SARS-CoV-2 Genome Reveals

Health Lab · Michigan Medicine Department of Communication

May 29, 20205m 31s

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Show Notes

Researchers look to the genes behind COVID-19 for early answers. Viruses may seem like cunning villains, purposefully mutating to increasingly deadlier forms to outwit their human hosts. In reality, a lot of what happens with a virus is completely random. This randomness can make figuring out where a virus came from, how it spreads and what makes it tick especially tricky. For SARS-CoV-2, the new virus that causes COVID-19, scientists are looking to its genome for answers to some of these questions.


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