Tag: SARS-CoV-2
Kent Variant of Coronavirus Up To ‘Twice’ As Deadly, Study Finds
Study led by Exeter University said the variant appears to be 64% more lethal.
It suggests risk of death after infection may increase...
Pfizer Vaccine Effective From Day 11 Post 1st Dose, Study Finds
New Australian research suggests that the second ‘booster’ dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine may not increase vaccine efficacy against SARS-CoV-2.
The results suggest...
People With High COVID Viral Load Spreading It
Scientists found out what makes people contagious with covid.
In a rare transmission study, scientists found out people with higher viral load are...
New Pandemic Likely As Bat Coronaviruses Can Directly Infect Humans
New research has revealed the extent of the covid problem by showing some bat coronaviruses can directly infect humans.
The two coronaviruses used...
COVID Losing Its Own Genes To Survive Against Antibodies
Again and again, the new coronavirus has sloughed off small chunks of its genome, leading to changes in a viral protein that is frequently...
COVID19 Spike Protein Mutation Making New Variants 8 Times More Infectious
Scientists identify a mutation in the coronavirus spike protein making new variants more infectious.
The D614G mutation appears in all the 3 new...
COVID-19 Not Going Away, Likely To Stay Forever: Warns Moderna CEO
Stephane Bancel, CEO of COVID-19 vaccine maker Moderna, warned that the virus will be around “forever.”
Public health officials and infectious disease experts...
Recent Key COVID Research & Findings
As new strains of covid wreak havoc, Nature looks back at the key findings of the disease and the nature of infection.
Let's take a...
COVID19 Virus To Infection – What Lies in the Genes
In a research paper published in Nature, Scientists chronicle the journey of the covid virus from genome to infectome, that's how its genes became...
A Novel ‘Molecular Signature’ To Predict COVID19 Susceptibility
A recent publication in the Physiological Reports discusses the importance of the mucous layer protein "mucin" as a potential tool to predict coronavirus susceptibility.
SARS-CoV-2...