NYT’s “A DNA Sequencing Revolution Helped Us Fight COVID. What Else Can It Do?” Showcases Visit to NYGC, NYGC Scientist Interviews

NEW YORK, NY (March 25, 2021) — “One morning last August, after the pandemic’s first wave had ebbed on the East Coast, I visited the New York Genome Center in Lower Manhattan to observe the process of genomic sequencing.”

This first-person reporting is part of A DNA Sequencing Revolution Helped Us Fight COVID. What Else Can It Do? – Ultrafast and Ultracheap Sequencing Could Reshape the Future of Health Care, an in-depth feature posted online today in The New York Times Magazine in advance of its March 28 print issue. To conduct this investigation, reporter Jon Gertner “embedded” himself at the NYGC, shadowing on-site NYGC lab technicians and interviewing an array of NYGC scientists.

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