SARS, Malaria, and the Microarray :The Scientist [21/11/2005]

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by Karen Hopkin

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SARS, Malaria, and the Microarray

Joseph DeRisi's work has taken him from virology to Plasmodium and even to Uganda

Email: Karen Hopkin - khopkin@the-scientist.com
The Scientist 2005, 19(22):40

Published

21 November 2005

It was the first Saturday of Spring 2003, and Joe DeRisi and his postdoc David Wang were staked out at either end of the University of California, San Francisco's Genentech Hall waiting for the FedEx truck. DeRisi, had recently moved his lab to the university's new Mission Bay campus. With the lot still surrounded by chain link fencing and the loading dock closed for the weekend, DeRisi and Wang feared that the FedEx driver might get discouraged and depart without delivering their package: samples of genetic material extracted from the causative agent of SARS.


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