{"id":4563,"date":"2016-02-03T13:19:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T18:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4563"},"modified":"2016-02-05T14:39:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T19:39:29","slug":"lab-in-a-suitcase-provides-real-time-monitoring-of-ebola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/lab-in-a-suitcase-provides-real-time-monitoring-of-ebola\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab in a suitcase provides real-time monitoring of Ebola <img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Testing the DNA of the Ebola virus on-site in the field in less than a day is now possible thanks to a new system developed by researchers. Real-time genomic surveillance will provide information on the virus and its rate of evolution &#8211; as well as characterizing its response to treatments and vaccines. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The kit weighs less than 100 grams, plugs into a laptop through USB, and is safe to be transported in airline baggage. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers used the system to sequence and analyse 142 Ebola virus samples, obtaining results in less than 24 hours.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nature16996.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in\u00a0<em>Nature\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>February 3<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nicholas Loman, Institute of Microbiology and Infection, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Jared T. Simpson,\u00a0Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Ontario, and\u00a0Ontario Institute for Cancer Research<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Testing the DNA of the Ebola virus on-site in the field in less than a day is now possible thanks to a new system developed by researchers. Real-time genomic surveillance will provide information on the virus and its rate of evolution &#8211; as well as characterizing its response to treatments and vaccines. The kit weighs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2233,909,51,847,53,50,1011],"class_list":["post-4563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-ebola","tag-genetics","tag-health","tag-manitoba-en","tag-medicine","tag-ontario","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1bB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4587,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4563\/revisions\/4587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}