How South African scientists discovered Omicron and set off a global chain reaction
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In the early days of November, laboratory technicians at Lancet Laboratories in Pretoria, South Africa, found unusual features in samples they were testing for the coronavirus.
Essentially, a gene was missing in what would be a normal genome profile of the virus. PCR tests weren't detecting one of their expected targets, a signal that something about the virus had changed.
Just a few days later, the same phenomenon was reported at Lancet's Molecular Pathology Department in Johannesburg.
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