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Hantavirus scare a wake-up call: Why India must build its disease X defencesA recent hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship echoes past pandemic scares. Experts warn Disease X, a future unknown pathogen, is a near cer...- Hantavirus outbreak: How an African lab identified the deadly Andes strainA hantavirus scare aboard a cruise ship off Cape Verde prompted a rapid scientific response, with researchers in Senegal quickly identifyin...
- New ‘Cicada’ COVID variant hits US: What BA.3.2 means and why experts are watchingThe BA.3.2 COVID-19 variant, nicknamed “Cicada,” has emerged in the United States and multiple countries, prompting close monitoring by the...
- Mutations discovered in first severe human bird flu case in the US: What we know so farA severe case of bird flu in Louisiana has led to the discovery of mutations in the H5N1 virus, which may help it bind more easily to human...
- New study finds link between Covid antiviral drug & virus mutationsA study published in the journal Nature has found a link between the COVID-19 antiviral drug molnupiravir and a pattern of mutations in the...
- 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...
- SARS-CoV-2 mutations: Why coronavirus might still have some tricks to pullThe SARS-CoV-2 genome is made up of 30,000 individual bases. The rate at which mutations arise is typically expressed as the probability th...
- 'Delta on steroids': What scientists say about next Covid variantThe world is in a very "dangerous period" of the Covid-19 pandemic compounded by more transmissible variants like Delta, which is continuin...
- 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...
- Novel method to predict emergence of worrisome coronavirus variantsThe study posted in the platform bioRxiv, and yet-to-be peer-reviewed, assessed 3,11,795 genome sequences of the coronavirus spike protein ...
- 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.
- COVID-19 shots might be tweaked if variants get worseThe makers of COVID-19 vaccines are figuring out how to tweak their recipes against worrisome virus mutations - and regulators are looking ...
- Here's what we do and don't know about new coronavirus mutationsOne mutation -- variant B117, which likely emerged in southeastern England in September, according to Imperial College London -- has now be...
- Coronavirus vaccine will be equally effective against new mutant of coronavirus: CSIR DGThe CSIR's Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), Delhi and Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad have...
- How the novel coronavirus has evolved and adapted to human hostsMapping and understanding those changes to the virus is crucial to developing strategies to combat the COVID-19 disease it causes.
- 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...
- Pan-India COVID-19 genome studies suggest virus genetically stable, no major mutation: PMOThere had been concerns in some quarters that any major mutation detected in the novel coronavirus could hinder the development of an effec...
- Mutation in virus may hamper vaccine progressA study published in a medical journal has revealed that SARS-CoV-2, which causes Covid-19, has undergone multiple mutations in its "spike ...
- 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...
- Avian Flu viruses could evolve in natureIt might be possible for human-tohuman airborne transmissible avian H5N1 inf luenza viruses to evolve in nature, new research has found.
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