New research by Malaghan's Connor Laboratory, published in PNAS, shows how directing the immune system toward conserved areas of the COVID virus and its many variants using RNA technology could be a ...

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Back in June, Houston, Texas saw a huge surge in coronavirus cases. Scientists discovered that the strain of SARS-CoV-2 that had developed in Europe in February, and was assumed to be more contagious, ...

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The virus that causes COVID-19 is accumulating genetic mutations, one of which may have made it more contagious. The number of virus strains present in each zip code in Houston during the second wave ...

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A crack unit of virologists from around the world has concluded that the Andes hantavirus is subtly mutating as it spreads, but that the current outbreak will likely burn out. Scientists in South ...