A team of scientists, which included experts from Branford-based 454 Life Sciences, recently unveiled a playbook in the fight against infectious disease outbreaks: Genetic mapping by computers to find bugs that slip past other medical tests.
The process, experts say, should facilitate much faster responses to deadly outbreaks.
The team, which also included the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and academic researchers from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York, eventually found one molecule of evidence inside a cell that most likely came from rodent urine in Yugoslavia.
