Surabaya: Artificial intelligence can help predict mutations in COVID-19. Some have achieved a perfect strike rate. Mutations of COVID-19 are continuing to plague the world. For medical scientists, getting the earliest possible look at when and how the virus changes is critical – it gives them a head start in developing the latest and strongest … Read more
May 12, 2022 – Some smokers might not get lung cancer because of their DNA, researchers report in a new study. These people have genes that help limit mutations, or changes, to DNA that would turn cells malignant and make them grow into tumors, the researchers say. Scientists have long suspected that smoking leads to … Read more
In February, a small number of cases of the UK or Alpha variant were found with a mutation, called E484K, that is already seen in the South Africa variant. It was feared this change could reduce vaccine effectiveness, but the mutation never took off. Source link
Feb. 24, 2021 — A coronavirus variant first identified in California is more contagious than previous forms of the virus and is spreading across the state, two new studies show. One of them found that compared to other variants, this variant produces twice as many viral particles inside the body and may be better … Read more
HOUSTON: Researchers have developed a new method to counter emergent mutations of the deadly coronavirus and hasten vaccine development to stop the pathogen responsible for killing thousands of people and ruining the economy, according to a study. The research team at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering, using artificial intelligence developed a … Read more
The vaccine is able to attack one of the mutations found in new forms of the virus, lab studies show. Source link
Jan. 6, 2021 — After 10 months of masks, social distancing, virtual school, fear for vulnerable loved ones, and loneliness, this is the news no one wanted to hear: The virus that causes COVID-19 has changed — once again — in ways that make it more contagious. At least one new “super strain” of … Read more
Nov. 13, 2020 — The virus that causes COVID-19 is not the same strain as what first emerged from China. A new study shows it has changed slightly in a way that makes it more contagious to humans. Compared to the original strain, people infected with the new strain — called 614G — have … Read more
The government on Saturday said two pan-India studies on the genome of the coronavirus in India suggest it is genetically stable and has shown no major mutation. The announcement was made after a review meeting was chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the Covid-19 pandemic situation, and vaccine delivery, distribution and administration preparedness, This … Read more