The eighth season of the Banega Swasth India initiative stresses on the need to take care of, and consider everyone's health in India especially vulnerable communities
Oct 03, 2021
17:31 (IST)
Aditi Hazra, Associate Epidemiologist, Brigham and Women's Hospital & Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical Schooll explains about Genome Sequencing
Genome sequencing is technology that we can use to understand the complete sequence and order of a virus. Humans have a 3 billion DNA basis. Virus has 30,000 RNA basis and they are represented as chemical ladders. As it spread from person to person, it was replicating itself. Occasionally it would make an error in that copy like a spelling error and that could have a different meaning. We saw that during spring surge. Delta variant is more transmissible and attaching to human more robustly. Although other variants are also emerging, sequencing allows us to track those.