![Peter Thielen, a molecular biologist in Johns Hopkins APL’s Research and Exploratory Development Department, works to sequence SARS-CoV-2 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in early March 2020. Credit: Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-01/20210930_image1_med.jpeg?itok=LzPdHP8i)
Biomedicine
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![Hayley DeHart, a genomics research scientist at APL, loads water samples into a sequencer while on board a ship during the team’s trip to Monterey Bay.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2024-06/IMG-Project-Enlisting-eDNA.jpg?itok=T4xknR2z)
Enlisting eDNA to Understand Ecosystems
APL researchers are using genetic information to observe animals, plants, and microbes in their natural environments, and pioneering environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis methods to study marine ecosystems that the world relies on as the foundation of global food webs.
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