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Vietnam's suspicious coronavirus variant not hybrid strain: WHO
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Swizerland], June 3 (ANI/Sputnik): A suspicious coronavirus variant detected in Vietnam is part of the existing Delta strain and not a new hybrid mutation, a World Health Organization official said.
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Monoclonal antibodies to treat COVID patients should always be used in pai
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 31 (ANI): Monoclonal antibodies, recently introduced in India as an antibody therapy to treat COVID-positive patients, are being used to minimise mutation formation and should always be used in a pair, said Dr Nirmal K Ganguly, former Director-General of the Indian Cou
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Monoclonal antibody cocktail unlikely to cause further mutations of COVID-
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 30 (ANI): Monoclonal antibody cocktail, used for the treatment of COVID-19, is unlikely to lead to further mutation of the virus, said Dr Raman R Gangakhedkar, former Head Scientist of Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases at the Indian Council of Medical Research (IC
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Over 13,000 coronavirus variants detected in Russia, says vaccine develope
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Novosibirsk [Russia], May 22 (ANI/Sputnik): Russian scientists have already identified more than 13,000 coronavirus mutations, but most of them do not have any significant impact on the course of the pandemic, Rinat Maksyutov, the director of the Vector research center that developed the Epi
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Structural details of how SARS-CoV-2 variants escape immune response revea
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
California [US], May 21 (ANI): Fast-spreading variants of the COVID-19-causing coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, carry mutations that enable the virus to escape some of the immune response created naturally or by vaccination. A new study by a team of researchers has revealed key details of how these
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Indian variant B.1.617 overtaking rest of variants, mutation a global conc
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 20 (ANI): Currently among four variants widely found, the B.1.617, which is dominating the Indian topography has emerged as a global concern following its infectivity and transmitting capacity.
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No specialised kits to detect, Pak denies presence of B.1.617 Covid varian
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Peshawar [Pakistan], May 18 (ANI): Pakistan has officially denied that the B.1.617 variant of the coronavirus has entered the country, despite experts noting that it does not have specialised kits to detect the highly contagious COVID-19 mutation.
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Covid-19 virus is more aggressive, need to work together to fight it, says
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 8 (ANI): Work is being done on genome sequencing of coronavirus and mutations and the repercussions and this virus is more aggressive than others, German Ambassador to India Walter J Lindner has said and noted that countries have to come together to fight the pandemic.
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Researchers find rare genetic disease caused by mutations in protein that
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Pittsburgh [US], May 7 (ANI): An international group of collaborators led by researchers at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh have identified a genetic cause of a rare neurological disorder marked by developmental delay and loss of coordination, or ataxia. The research was published in
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COVID-19: Govt's failure has made another devastating national lockdown al
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 7 (ANI): Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has written a second letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the ongoing COVID-19 situation in the country, saying the government should implement several measures including assessment of the efficacy of all vaccines
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Researchers find new genetic target for blood cancer treatment
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Cambridge [England], April 30 (ANI): Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute found that a specific genetic mutation, which is linked with poor prognosis in blood cancer, is involved in the development of the disease when combined with other mutations in mice and human cell lines.
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Researchers find clues to sex differences in autism
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 17 (ANI): While it is unclear why autism occurs much more frequently in boys than in girls. In a new Yale-led study, researchers find that autism may develop in different regions of the brain in girls than boys and that girls with autism have a larger number of genetic
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