Is SARS-CoV2 mutating?

If the increase in the relative frequency of a particular variant in a given geographical area is high, that variant becomes a candidate for conferring a selective advantage. Single amino acid changes are worth monitoring as they can be phenotypically relevant. Among coronaviruses, point mutations have been demonstrated to confer resistance to neutralizing antibodies in […]

COVID-19 vaccine:Explained

As the COVID pandemic is killing thousands and thousands of people worldwide, the need for a vaccine is becoming important day by day. Scientists around the world are working on different strategies to develop a vaccine and some vaccine modules are in the testing phase . Before we discuss about strategy for the vaccine, let […]

SARS-COV2 genome: Decoded

The world is witnessing a coronavirus pandemic, which is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‑19), caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS‑CoV‑2). The outbreak was first identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 and eventually spread to other countries through human to human transmission. While development of a vaccine seems to be the efficient option to control this pandemic and […]

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