{
  "id": 1518059,
  "title": "Nextstrain Aims to Boost Tracking of Virus Evolution",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/nextstrain-aims-to-boost-tracking-of-virus-evolution",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-17T16:02:23.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MedPage Today",
    "slug": "medpage-today",
    "url": "https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/122632"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "(MedPage Today) -- During the acute phase of the COVID pandemic, Nextstrain became known as a key platform for tracking the evolution of SARS-CoV-2. It took viral genome sequences uploaded to global repositories like GISAID and GenBank and turned...",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}