The data, yet to be published in a peer-reviewed medical journal, shows that the companies' treatment, sotrovimab, is effective against all...

These variants harbour 15 lineage defining mutations. B.1.617, initially termed double mutant, has three new spike protein mutations. Two m...

New variants first detected in such far-flung countries as Brazil, South Africa and Britain cropped up spontaneously within a few months la...

"Thanks to the sequencing of samples from patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection, our laboratory discovered a hitherto undescribed mutation of ...

While antibodies dock directly onto viruses to neutralise them, the scientists, including those from the Medical University of Vienna in Au...

The novel coronavirus is perhaps the first infectious organism in recent times to form thousands of its variants across the globe. In India...

A comprehensive analysis of coronavirus variants in the country and their evolution during the pandemic by the scientists presented in a re...

In view of increase in cases in Western Maharashtra's Pune, Sarata districts and Amravati and Yavatmal in Vidarbha region, genome sequencin...

Dr Subhash Salunke, technical adviser to the Maharashtra government on the COVID-19 outbreak, said those with comorbidities are at a greate...

The study confirms findings that D614G, one of the mutations, makes the virus more transmissible.

According to the scientists, including those from the University of Texas in the US, these variants have a substitution of the amino acid b...

He also said the company has approached regulatory authorities seeking approval for an emergency license to use the vaccine, developed in c...

The spike protein is also continuing to accumulate additional mutations.

Saumitra Das, the director of the National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, said the institutes started sequencing the virus from differen...

An international team, led by researchers at Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in Uttar Pradesh, analysed mutations in the gene responsible fo...

An increasingly common mutation of the novel coronavirus found in Europe, North America and parts of Asia may be more infectious but appear...

Coronaviruses, like other RNA viruses, can develop mutations in three different ways: by mistake from copying errors during viral replicati...