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Archive: HHMI 2010 Holiday Lectures - The Virus Hunter's Toolkit

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Infectious diseases are a serious threat to world health. They are particularly devastating in tropical countries where infectious agents thrive and where healthcare resources are stretched thin. Two leading virus researchers explain how they use both simple and sophisticated technologies to detect and fight infectious agents. 

Part two of the Holiday lecture series is given by Dr. Joseph DeRisi of University of California, San Francisco, as he seeks to clarify what tools are available for those fighting infectious diseases. He introduces discoveries in polymerase chain reaction and methods of DNA sequencing, and using the Virochip to identify viral pathogens. 

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