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Should we be worried about Covid variant ‘Pi’? Potential concerns and overviewA novel variant designated "Pi," officially recognized as BA.6, has emerged, igniting extensive discussions within scientific and medical c...- 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...
- Decoded: How dangerous Covid variants emergeThe team, led by those from the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), discovered that the likelihood of a substitu...
- Omicron BA.2 less severe than its original and Delta variants : StudyOf 1,02,315 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the US from March 3, 2020 to June 20 this year, there were 20,770 labelled as Delta variants, 52,60...
- Sanofi, GSK variant-specific Covid-19 shot found effective against Omicron"Sanofi-GSK's vaccine is the first candidate to demonstrate efficacy in a placebo-controlled trial in an environment of high Omicron varian...
- Covid-19 Omicron XE: What does 'recombinant' mean and how fast does this variant spread?XE has also been identified in India, China and Thailand.
- What's the new Omicron XE variant and should I be worried?A "recombinant" variant has emerged, dubbed "Omicron XE", which is the result of two omicron strains merging together in a single host and ...
- Anti-Covid drugs potent against Omicron, antibody therapies less effective: StudyThe lab tests also showed that some antibodies have entirely lost their ability to neutralise Omicron at realistic dosages. "The bottom lin...
- View: To vaccinate the world, we need to look beyond mRNAAccelerating global vaccinations is the only way to ensure we don’t ruin 2022 or 2023 with yet worse variants.
- Omicron infects 70 times faster but may cause less severe disease: StudyThe researchers from University of Hong Kong found that Omicron infects and multiplies 70 times faster than the Delta variant and original ...
- Explainer: Delta dominates the world, but scientists watch for worrisome offspringDelta is more than two times as contagious as previous SARS-CoV-2 variants, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
- Antibodies from earlier Covid strain may not help fight variantsThe finding has implications for the ability of new variants to reinfect people who contracted earlier versions of the virus.
- What's the Mu variant? And will we keep seeing more concerning variants?If Mu was truly a really bad variant, we would have expected to have started to see indications of this, and we haven't yet.
- Covid antibody that protects against broad range of variants identifiedThe new antibody attaches to a part of the virus that differs little across the variants, meaning that it is unlikely for resistance to ari...
- Citing the Delta variant, Pfizer will pursue booster shots and a new vaccineA booster given six months after the second dose of the vaccine increases the potency of antibodies against the original virus and the beta...
- We don’t want no Indian variantNo country carries out genetic profiling of as many samples of the virus as it can lay its hand on as Britain does. So, it is not impossibl...
- Are vaccines variant-proof? Here’s some good newsModerna Inc. has also noted, though not published data, that its new mRNA-1273.351 vaccine was able to boost the immune response of previou...
- Faster spread of some coronavirus variants could be due to sturdier protein, say scientistsResearchers, including those from the Boston Children's Hospital in the US assessed the structure of the coronavirus spike protein down to ...
- COVID-19 vaccine-induced antibodies less effective against some coronavirus variants: StudyAccording to the scientists neutralising antibodies work by binding tightly to the virus and blocking it from entering cells, thus preventi...
- 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.
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