It turns out that viruses evolve from each other, like everything else. So if you look at the evolutionary tree of viruses, you can find parts of their genome that haven't changed over evolutionary time. You can recognize what may be a new virus by identifying this little piece of their genome that hasn't changed and is represented on the chip.

I think my formative experiences were really in junior high, where at a typical public school we were doing little genetic experiments, very classic experiments.

I did my undergraduate work at the University of California when it was still affordable. But tuition keeps on rising.

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