Scientists Identify New Killer Transplant Virus Using 454 Sequencing Platform

Feb 07, 2008

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – American and Australian scientists reported today that they have used high-throughput DNA sequencing and bioinformatics to identify the virus behind the deaths of three Australian transplant recipients.

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