{"id":646081,"date":"2026-10-14T11:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T11:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/646081\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T11:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T11:12:18","slug":"the-genetic-technique-that-finds-almost-every-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/646081\/","title":{"rendered":"The genetic technique that finds (almost) every infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">Metagenomics, the study of all the DNA and RNA found in a particular environment, is seen as an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41576-019-0113-7\" class=\"LinkUrl-styles__LinkUrlStyled-sc-f4e3b82f-0 eGAhOs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">increasingly important clinical approach<\/a>. Metagenomic testing involves extracting genetic material from a sample, then using advanced sequencing methods to identify the genetic codes of everything that&#8217;s there. These results can be analysed by computers with reference to large databases, allowing doctors to pinpoint the exact organisms present, such as bacteria or viruses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Metagenomics, the study of all the DNA and RNA found in a particular environment, is seen as an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[163,85,46],"class_list":["post-646081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}