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a counterintuitive result of our analysis is that the highest risk of resistant strain establishment occurs when a large fraction of the population has already been vaccinated but the transmission [...]
mRNA was discovered in 1961. mRNA vaccine science and technology has been in development for 60 years... Key Points: Recent improvements in mRNA vaccines act to increase protein translation, modulate [...]
Are we in the danger zone for creating new variants that could weaken the ability of vaccines to shield us from Covid? And does it matter? Scientists have warned that [...]
Abstract Background Tracking the genetic variability of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome CoronaVirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a crucial challenge. Mainly to identify target sequences in order to generate robust vaccines and [...]
Source: https://www.gisaid.org/references/hcov-19-reference-sequence/ hCoV-19/Wuhan/WIV04/2019 (WIV04) is the official reference sequence employed by GISAID (EPI_ISL_402124). WIV04 was chosen because of its high-quality genome sequence and because it represented the consensus of a handful of [...]
A codon table can be used to translate a genetic code into a sequence of amino acids.[1][2] The standard genetic code is traditionally represented as an RNA codon table, because when proteins are made in a cell by ribosomes, it is messenger RNA that directs protein [...]
Coronavirus Variants and Mutations Tracker Each coronavirus contains nearly 30,000 letters of RNA. This genetic information allows the virus to infect cells and hijack them to make new viruses. By [...]
MSNBC Public Health Analyst Dr. Irwin Redlener reacts to the growing concern over three Covid-19 variants now detected in the United States. Aired on 2/4/2021. Link for educational purposes and [...]
DOWNLOAD REPORT Summary SGTF detections indicate VOC202012/01 continues to predominate across all regions. S gene target failure remains a well correlated proxy measure of VOC 202012/01. An assessment of severity [...]
The United States is doing so little of the genetic sequencing needed to detect new variants of the coronavirus — like the ones first identified in Great Britain and South Africa [...]
