Fingerprinting transformed police investigations by making it possible to place a suspect at a crime scene with physical evidence. Similarly, genome sequencing has changed how disease detectives study outbreaks by allowing them to read a pathogen’s genes as a biological record of where it came from and how it spread. One way to think about [...] The post DNA sequencing is rewriting our understanding of historic outbreaks, but it can’t tell the whole story appeared first on CBNC .