Blood test reveals your viral history

• Autores: Jessica Hamzelou
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3025, 2015, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • To test whether someone has been exposed to a specific virus, one can add a protein from that virus to a sample of their blood. If antibodies target it then the person has previously been infected. Stephen Elledge at Harvard University and his colleagues have pushed this idea further and developed a way to test for every single human virus in one go--and all that's needed is a drop of a person's blood. Costing $25, the test could help doctors identify hidden infections.