As the COVID-19 pandemic progresses, researchers say it is important to track how the coronavirus mutates because it could affect the efficacy of a vaccine. Like all living cells, viruses evolve their ...

Protection from infection declines with each new variant, making herd immunity impossible, but they are still keeping people ...

Just when it felt like COVID had quietly slipped into the background of everyday life, a new variant is back in the headlines. Reports suggest this strain carries multiple spike protein mutations and ...

The first vaccine to be used en masse against COVID-19 will have to contend with D614G, the latest mutation of SARS-CoV-2 Studies reveal D614G as the new dominant starin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that ...

A new paper in Genome Biology and Evolution, indicates that while the COVID-19 virus has developed rapidly since 2019, it has done so within limited genetic channels. These genetic limits have ...

Mutations of the coronavirus could render current vaccines ineffective within a year, according to a majority of epidemiologists, virologists and infectious disease specialists surveyed by the ...

A recent scientific article suggested that the novel coronavirus responsible for the Covid-19 epidemic has mutated into a more "aggressive" form. Is this something we need to worry about? No, and here ...

Mutations are thought to have made the variant more infectious than previous strains ...