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Building Off NYC Subway Study, Consortium to Profile Metagenomes of Transit Systems in 45 Cities

Mar 01, 2016
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Monica Heger
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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – When researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College examined the microbial communities that live throughout New York City's subway system, the researchers found that nearly half of the DNA they sequenced could not be matched to any known organism.

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