Sharon Peacock interview: How we track down new coronavirus variants

Sharon Peacock leads a group of researchers who started sequencing the genome of the coronavirus in March 2020 and identified the rise of the delta variant in the UK

Sharon Peacock interview: How we track down new coronavirus variants
Health 14 September 2021

By Michael Le Page

Sharon Peacock, manager  of COVID-19 Genomics UK, poses for a representation    connected  the grounds of the Wellcome Sanger Institute's 55-acre field  southbound  of Cambridge, Britain

Sharon Peacock, manager of COVID-19 Genomics UK

REUTERS / Alamy Stock Photo

Last December, the UK shocked the satellite with the announcement of a caller variant of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that seemed to dispersed faster than the archetypal virus. That find was made imaginable by the COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium, which had been sequencing viral samples to show the evolution of the virus. COG-UK, arsenic it is known, is led by Sharon Peacock, who spoke to New Scientist astir her research.

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