A Universal Virus Test Could Be Just What the Doctor Ordered
Detecting 1,000 viruses with just one test.
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Innovator: W. Ian Lipkin
Age: 63
Title Professor of epidemiology at Columbia University
Form and function
Lipkin and six researchers developed a shoebox-size add-on to a genetic sequencer they say can accurately identify more than 1,000 viruses known to affect vertebrates, so doctors don’t have to test for infections one at a time.