Works of Charles Chiu and Steve Miller Featured in Microbe Magazine

The work of Drs. Charles Chiu and Steve Miller, two faculty members in the Department of Laboratory Medicine at UCSF, was highlighted in the January 2011 issue of Microbe Magazine. In a feature article, they discuss the development of emerging technologies for pathogen detection, microarrays and deep sequencing. These tools promise to radically transform the way clinical microbiology laboratories approach infectious disease diagnosis by enabling the detection of thousands of potential pathogens simultaneously. The authors discuss both the great opportunities and considerable challenges that exist in adapting these technologies for routine clinical diagnostic use. Microbe is the monthly new magazine of the American Society for Microbiology. Published monthly in print and online, the magazine is widely read worldwide by laboratory researchers and microbiologists in the field.