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Covid-19 mutant B.1.617.2 responsible for increased Corona 2nd wave death
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Jammu and Kashmir [India], June 12 (ANI): Recent epidemiological studies suggest that the SARS-CoV-2 variant, B.1.617.2, has been responsible for the raging second wave of COVID-19 infection in India, including the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
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8 labs in 4 cities, part of CCMB-led consortium to identify Covid-19 varia
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], June 10 (ANI): Complementing national efforts led by INSACOG, a consortium of four city clusters - Bangalore, Hyderabad, New Delhi and Pune - has been established to upscale the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus genomic surveillance.
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Wuhan lab leak possible origin of COVID-19, says Indian scientist couple
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], June 5 (ANI): An Indian scientist couple is working with netizens globally and has discovered some compelling evidence to support the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19) originated from a lab in Wuhan rather than a seafood market as China as widely informe
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'Super infectious' Delta variant reason behind second Covid wave: Study
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 4 (ANI): A study has revealed that the Delta variant, which was first detected in India, is "more infectious" and is also the reason behind the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Study finds mass, diversity of SARS-CoV-2 virions person carries during in
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 4 (ANI): A multi-institutional study estimates that during peak infection with SARS-CoV-2 a person carries between 1 billion and 100 billion virions with a total mass of no more than 0.1 milligrams.
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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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Tamil Nadu's first SARS-CoV-2 antibody cocktail treatment for COVID-19 beg
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], May 28 (ANI/NewsVoir): A new entrant into the treatment portfolio of COVID-19 in India is the cocktail formulation of Mono Clonal Antibodies (MCAb).
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COVID-19 origin: New life to Wuhan lab-leak theory
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 26 (ANI): Eighteen months since China reported the first patient with Covid-19 like symptoms, the deadly SARS-CoV-2 virus has spread like wildfire over the world claiming the lives of over 35 lakh people and infecting over 16.8 crore in more than 180 countries.
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WHO scientists likely to reconsider China lab origin theory of Covid-19
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], May 26 (ANI): World Health Organisation (WHO) is expected to restudy the "dominant theory" that the SARS-CoV-2 probably originated and spread across the world from China's Wuhan lab, according to reports.
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Study on harnessing next generation sequencing to detect SARS-CoV-2
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Vienna [Austria], May 25 (ANI): During the pandemic, it is extremely critical to detect the virus at the beginning stage, and in a move to achieve the same a team of researchers at the Vienna BioCenter designed a testing protocol for SARS-CoV-2 that can process tens of thousands of samples i
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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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Newly identified antibody can be targeted by HIV vaccines: Study
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 20 (ANI): A newly-identified group of antibodies that binds to a coating of sugars on the outer shell of HIV is effective in neutralizing the virus and points to a novel vaccine approach that could also potentially be used against SARS-CoV-2 and fungal pathogens, researc
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