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Genetic Research on Coronavirus Variants

By Frederica Freyberg | Here & Now

April 9, 2021

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UW-Madison AIDS Vaccine Research Laboratory researcher Katarina Braun speaks about the science of genomic sequencing and how this tool is being used to track coronavirus variants.

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