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In research published in the journal Virus Evolution, scientists from Oxford University’s Department of Zoology have revealed that Next-Generation Sequencing and its associated online DNA databases could be used in the field of viral discovery.

herpes virus cells

They have developed algorithms that detect DNA from viruses that happen to be in the blood or tissue sample of the species studied.

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