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Covid virus' 'most muted variant' found in Indonesia, claim scientists. What we know so farCovid pandemic has subsided but the most mutated variant of coronavirus has been found in Indonesia. The new variant of the covid virus has...
'Deltacron' likely result of lab error: ExpertsCypriot media reported the discovery Saturday, describing it as having "the genetic background of the Delta variant along with some of the ...
Computer model predicts Omicron may evolve to increase transmission, immune escapeThe scientists from Boston College in the US developed a computer model that can predict mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and provide ins...
New data shows GSK-Vir drug works against all Omicron mutationsThe data, yet to be published in a peer-reviewed medical journal, shows that the companies' treatment, sotrovimab, is effective against all...
Double and triple mutants of coronavirus one and the same; vaccines effective on it: ScientistThese variants harbour 15 lineage defining mutations. B.1.617, initially termed double mutant, has three new spike protein mutations. Two m...
In mutant variants, has the coronavirus shown its best tricks?New variants first detected in such far-flung countries as Brazil, South Africa and Britain cropped up spontaneously within a few months la...
Czech Lab discovers new COVID-19 mutation"Thanks to the sequencing of samples from patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection, our laboratory discovered a hitherto undescribed mutation of ...
Some coronavirus mutations may help it evade immune system's T-killer cells, say scientistsWhile antibodies dock directly onto viruses to neutralise them, the scientists, including those from the Medical University of Vienna in Au...
India host to 7,569 coronavirus mutants, shows studyThe novel coronavirus is perhaps the first infectious organism in recent times to form thousands of its variants across the globe. In India...
N440K coronavirus variant spreading more in southern states: CCMB studyA comprehensive analysis of coronavirus variants in the country and their evolution during the pandemic by the scientists presented in a re...
No foreign strain of virus found in Amravati, Yavatmal: Maharashtra govtIn view of increase in cases in Western Maharashtra's Pune, Sarata districts and Amravati and Yavatmal in Vidarbha region, genome sequencin...
COVID-19: Amravati surge could be due to mutation, people's carelessness, says Maharashtra officialDr Subhash Salunke, technical adviser to the Maharashtra government on the COVID-19 outbreak, said those with comorbidities are at a greate...
Mutation in spike protein dominant form of Covid, eight times more infectiousThe study confirms findings that D614G, one of the mutations, makes the virus more transmissible.
Pfizer vaccine can neutralise coronavirus variants first reported in UK, SA: StudyAccording to the scientists, including those from the University of Texas in the US, these variants have a substitution of the amino acid b...
Covaxin can work against mutated coronavirus: Bharat BiotechHe also said the company has approached regulatory authorities seeking approval for an emergency license to use the vaccine, developed in c...
Novel coronavirus can undergo mutations that may make it more deadly & contagious, says studyThe spike protein is also continuing to accumulate additional mutations.
No major mutation observed in SARS-COV 2, no indication vaccine strategy would be hindered: StudySaumitra Das, the director of the National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, said the institutes started sequencing the virus from differen...
Gene mutation behind different COVID-19 death rates among Indian states, study findsAn international team, led by researchers at Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in Uttar Pradesh, analysed mutations in the gene responsible fo...
More infectious coronavirus mutation may be 'a good thing', says disease expertAn increasingly common mutation of the novel coronavirus found in Europe, North America and parts of Asia may be more infectious but appear...
Novel coronavirus mutations may not make it more infectious: StudyCoronaviruses, like other RNA viruses, can develop mutations in three different ways: by mistake from copying errors during viral replicati...