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As the COVID-19 pandemic nears the two-year mark, Northwestern Medicine scientists continue to tackle every facet of the disease, from investigating coronavirus vaccines' potential for providing immunity against similar coronaviruses to developing novel rapid antigen-based tests and examining disparities in COVID-19 case and mortality rates in Chicago.

Mutations are the ultimate engine of evolution and provide the raw material for natural selection to act.

Scientists at Harvard Medical School and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have built a giant petri dish to visually demonstrate how bacteria move as they become immune to drugs.

Par Ed Feil, Professor of Microbial Evolution at The Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath Publié le 12/05/2021 à 9h47 Mis à jour le 12/05/2021 à 9h51 Le génome du coronavirus est constitué de 30 000 « lettres », ce qui signifie qu’il existe une quantité énorme de mutations possibles. Mais inutile de paniquer pour autant. À la fin de l’année 2020, trois variants du coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (le virus à l’origine de l’épidé...