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How a rural school teacher became a top COVID sleuth

A self-taught Indiana man is among a cadre of community scientists who scour the SARS-CoV-2 genome for problematic mutations.
  1. Max Kozlov
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In late January, a team of scientists reported an ominous discovery: the widely used COVID-19 drug molnupiravir might be spurring the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 variants1. Four of the authors work at prominent UK universities. But one has neither attended graduate school nor stepped foot in a research laboratory.

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Nature 616, 636-637 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-01047-4

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  1. Sanderson, T., Hisner, R., Donovan-Banfield, I., Peacock, T. & Ruis, C. Preprint at medRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.26.23284998 (2023).

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