The double mutation of a Covid-19 variant discovered in India is of grave concern — and could spread to other countries, according to Dr. Kavita Patel, a non-resident fellow at …
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Coronavirus | Indian researchers find why variant with D614G mutation spread faster in Europe, U.S. but not East Asia
A study found that the variant with the D614G mutation introduced an additional cleavage site on the ACE-2 receptor for the SARS-CoV-2 virus to gain entry into cells Kalyani-based scientists …
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Chinese scientists have found a natural mutation in the African swine fever virus they say could be less deadly than the strain that ravaged the world’s largest pig herd in …
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The tool, designed by ACTREC, Tata Memorial Centre, is handy to analyse SARS-CoV-2 genome information uploaded to the GISAID database An automated computational tool – Infectious Pathogen Detector (IPD) – …
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Hyderabad: The SARS-CoV-2, which causes Covid-19, has shown a mutation, N440K, in 34 per cent of the samples analysed in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra and Karnataka. The mutation was found …
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Viruses lead a rather repetitive existence. They enter a cell, hijack its machinery to turn it into a viral copy machine, and those copies head on to other cells armed …
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The new virus strain causing a more contagious form of COVID-19 infection in the United Kingdom and a few other European countries is yet to make its appearance in India, …
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Coronavirus | N501Y mutation in SARS-CoV-2 virus causes increased infectivity in mice: researchers
The mutation seems to provide a more favourable interaction with mouse ACE2 for docking and entry, they say In a preliminary report posted on December 19, Dr. Andrew Rambaut …
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Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Monday said the government was on alert on the new strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the UK but said there was no need …