Inside the Ebola Wars

Inside the Ebola Wars

A Reporter at Large OCTOBER 27, 2014 ISSUE

The Ebola Wars

How genomics research can help contain the outbreak.

BY RICHARD PRESTON

Pardis Sabeti and Stephen Gire in the Genomics Platform of the Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They have been working to sequence Ebola’s genome and track its mutations.CREDITPHOTOGRAPH BY DAN WINTERS