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A cutting-edge diagnostic test is helping some doctors find diagnoses for medical mysteries by analyzing DNA and RNA to detect a broad swath of viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites, according to a pair of studies published Tuesday. Traditional diagnostic tests are generally designed to measure specific substances such as proteins, hormones or trace amounts of genetic material.
The researchers ran a simulation to see whether the test could pick up on human viruses like the coronavirus that causes Covid, even if the researchers removed those viruses’ genetic sequences from the database on which the test relies. The test still identified the viruses based on related strains in animals, Chiu said.
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