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Coronavirus Can Find Alternate Way To Infect Cells, Evade Vaccines

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, scientists identified how SARS-CoV-2 gets inside cells to cause infection. All current Covid-19 vaccines and antibody-based therapeutics were thus designed to disrupt this route into cells, which requires a receptor called ACE2.

  • Friday, 25 June 2021
COVID Variants With Two Specific Mutations May Evade Antibodies: Virologist
COVID Variants With Two Specific Mutations May Evade Antibodies: Virologist

New Delhi: Variants of the novel coronavirus carrying two specific mutations in their spike protein may evade antibodies and make vaccines less effective, according to eminent virologist Shahid Jameel, who says the need of the hour is to improve surveillance for “homegrown” lineages of the virus. Jameel, Director of the Trivedi School of Biosciences at […]

  • Monday, 05 April 2021
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