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The coronavirus is mutating. About 20 states in the union are now seeing cases of these new strains that doctors and health experts say are more contagious than the original COVID-19 virus.

State lab detects 2 mutations per month in virus, checks for other variants State lab detects two COVID-19 mutations per month. and last updated 2021-01-19 22:27:19-05 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — While the United Kingdom variant has only recently been detected for the first time in Michigan, scientists at the state lab in Lansing have been monitoring mutations and variances for several months. So far, the team at the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has analyzed roughly 6,000 s...

New versions of coronavirus that spread faster and might evade the immune system are causing fears about vaccine efficacy and a rise in covid-19 deaths. Here’s what you need to know

New research expands on earlier lab tests, providing further evidence that the widely used vaccine should prove effective against an infectious new strain.

The highly infectious B.1.1.7 coronavirus variant from the UK has now been reported in more than 50 countries, placing new urgency on the race to vaccinate the vulnerable

Date Time Early breeding reduced harmful mutations in sorghum When humans first domesticated maize some 9,000 years ago, those early breeding efforts led to an increase in harmful mutations to the crop’s genome compared to their wild relatives, which more recent modern breeding has helped to correct. Nadia Shakoor/Provided The image shows variation in flower head architecture of the different sorghum races, including (from left to right) bicolor, guinea, caudatum, kafir and durra. A n...

By Reuters Staff 2 Min Read SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Scientists in Chile are investigating a possible mutation of the novel coronavirus in southern Patagonia, a far-flung region near the tip of the South American continent that has seen an unusually contagious second wave of infections in recent weeks. FILE PHOTO: The ultrastructural morphology exhibited by the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), which was identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China,...

Genomics reveals distinct patterns of emergence of SARS‐CoV‐2 spike variants in Columbus, Ohio Genomic sequencing of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has facilitated tracking shifts in viral isolates globally. The emergence of the D614G mutation gave rise to the more transmissible G‐strain of SARS-COV-2. Studies show that this variant has increased cell binding and viral transmission within in vitro models. More distinct SARS‐CoV‐2 strains with additional c...

A new preprint research paper posted to the medRxiv server deals with the preliminary results of a study on the so-called British variant, UI-202012/01, also known as lineage B.1.1.7 or 20B/501Y.V1.

Mutations Threaten To Undo Progress Made In Controlling COVID-19 Pandemic The coronavirus is becoming more genetically diverse, and health officials say the high rate of new cases is the main reason. Marilynn Marchione The race against the virus that causes COVID-19 has taken a new turn: Mutations are rapidly popping up, and the longer it takes to vaccinate people, the more likely it is that a variant that can elude current tests, treatments and vaccines could emerge. The coronavirus is becomin...