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Study develops low-cost method for finding new COVID variants
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 23 (ANI): During a new study, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden developed a technology for cost-effective surveillance of the global spread of new SARS-CoV-2 variants.
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Engineering nanobodies as lifesavers when SARS-CoV-2 variants attack
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 22 (ANI): Scientists at Ohio State University are pursuing a new strategy in the protracted fight against the SARS-CoV-2 virus by engineering nanobodies that can neutralise virus variants in two different ways.
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Study evaluates reason behind increased transmission in SARS-CoV-2 variant
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 21 (ANI): Recently a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine study found that although two SARS-CoV-2 variants are associated with higher transmission, patients with these variants show no evidence of higher viral loads in their upper respiratory tracts compared to the control
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Researchers discover drug that blocks multiple SARS-CoV-2 variants in mice
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Pennsylvania [US], May 28 (ANI): The drug diABZI -- which activates the body's innate immune response -- was highly effective in preventing severe COVID-19 in mice that were infected with SARS-CoV-2, according to scientists in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
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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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