After an in-depth analysis of the genetic material from hundreds of swabs taken from the walls, floors, machines and drains inside the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China — a site that’s ...

In recent years, the technique of eDNA—environmental DNA, or samples taken from the environment, as opposed to from a specific animal—has changed ecology research. Scientists have learned how to ...

Genetic samples from the market were recently uploaded to an international database and then removed after scientists asked China about them. By Benjamin Mueller Ben Mueller has been covering the ...

The researchers identified the species of animals at the market through a technique called metagenomic sequencing, which reads all the genetic material present in a sample and then sifts through to ...

The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was swabbed by scientists in January 2020 after it was closed by Chinese government. A new analysis of these samples adds to evidence that there were ...