Researchers have been studying RNA viruses—Ebola among them—for several years, and had been working on this diagnostic tool for at least two years before this year’s outbreak. HMS Professor of Microbiology and Immunobiolgy Lee Gehrke’s lab at MIT is creating the tool.
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