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A very nasty new variant is spreading rapidly and looks to evade monoclonal antibodies and current vaccines. Assume the brace position.

Scientists are raising alarm about the B.1.1.529 COVID-19 variant, first located in Botswana, due to fears over the high number of mutations.

That, a few months before. >> yeah. and not only that i want to put a spotlight on the idea that the initial virus and the lab by the way took down all of it viruses, all of its sequencing, took it down off the web right around the time the suspicious stuff was happening. ainsley: thats interesting. >> also it turns out that the structure of the virus doesnt fit with the wet market whatsoever. thats been recently found the bloom lab here in the united states. in other words, it clearly came from...

A joint study published by China and the World Health Organization at the end of March acknowledged there could have been sporadic human infections before the…

SHANGHAI — The virus that causes COVID-19 could have started spreading in China as early as October 2019, two months before the first case was identified in…

Ralph Baric, 3 Other UNC Researchers Chosen for National Academy of Sciences Four UNC researchers, including leading coronavirus expert Ralph Baric, recently earned one of the most prestigious honors for scientists and engineers in the United States. The National Academy of Sciences inducted Baric, as well as Kerry Bloom, Joseph Kieber and Edward Salmon, into its ranks on April 26, announcing the quartet as part of an incoming class of 120 new members and 30 international members. The instituti...

New coronavirus variants are emerging across the globe: Everything we know CNET 2/17/2021 © Bloom Lab (https://jbloomlab.github.io/SARS-CoV-2-RBD_DMS/) Maps like these, produced by the Bloom lab at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, guide research on mutations. At significant sites in the RBD, the team analyzes how mutants change the binding affinity. Blue is increased affinity, red is decreased. The N501Y mutant is a deep blue, showing how this mutant has increased binding affinit...

As South Africa temporarily halts the AstraZeneca vaccine​ out of concern it doesn't protect from variants, scientists are racing to understand how new variants will affect immunity.

The COVID-19 virus has been mutating since it was first discovered, but scientists are racing to understand how new variants like B.1.1.7 will affect immunity and vaccines.

Scientists are racing to understand how new coronavirus variants could affect immunity and vaccines.