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COVID is still evolving and will find new ways to evade immune systems, scientists say
SARS-CoV-2 has been evolving the ability to evade the immune system about twice as fast as the fastest-evolving flu virus. It averages more than a dozen significant changes every year.
How the pandemic changed the world of disease control for worse — and for better
Five years after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, there has been progress — and backsliding in the ...
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'We're all still recovering and growing': Looking back at the COVID-19 pandemic 5 years later
The pandemic hit Manchester much like it did elsewhere in the country, and across the world - suddenly and shockingly, ...
AZoLifeSciences on MSN17h
Bispecific antibodies for SARS-CoV-2 variant neutralization
Bispecific antibodies targeting multiple SARS-CoV-2 sites offer enhanced neutralization against emerging variants, advancing ...
Changes in bats' diets can increase spread of viruses and spillover risk
Cornell researcher Raina Plowright and her team observed that when bats in Australia lost access to their habitat and natural ...
WPRL3d
5 years into the pandemic, the COVID-19 virus keeps changing
The virus that causes COVID-19 continues to mutate. Scientists say that's likely to continue indefinitely, and the virus will ...
Five years of COVID-19 underscore value of coordinated efforts to manage disease
Five years ago, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of COVID-19 a global pandemic. The ...
eLife4d
Parallel HIV-1 fitness landscapes shape viral dynamics in humans and macaques that develop broadly neutralizing antibodies
An effective HIV-1 vaccine must therefore elicit antibodies that can neutralize many variants of the virus. While broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) have been isolated from HIV-1 infected ...
Physician's Weekly8d
Virologic Suppression and Care Continuity With Telemedicine
The following is a summary of “Telemedicine virologic and immunologic outcomes in people living with HIV (PLWH) in a ...
Predicting SARS-CoV-2 variant infectivity with biophysical principles
When the COVID-19 pandemic first began, we saw how quickly the SARS-CoV-2 virus evolved. New variants emerged with mutations ...
eLife14d
Secondary structure of the SARS-CoV-2 genome is predictive of nucleotide substitution frequency
SARS-CoV-2 secondary structure shapes mutation frequencies, constraining viral evolution models predicting fitness can benefit from integrating secondary structure data.
'Is this definitely real?': Elon Musk on Wuhan lab's new Covid-like virus experiment
Elon Musk on Thursday responded to a social media post on X claiming that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was preparing for new experiments on a bat virus strikingly similar to Covid-19, identified as ...