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SYDNEY, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 20th May, 2021 ) : Australian medical researchers have developed genetically supercharged cells that allow them to test the effect of SARS-CoV-2 faster than other means.
The team, from the Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity in Society at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), unveiled the research on Wednesday.
They said the cells would enable medical experts to quickly understand the dynamics of different variants of the virus and test their ability to evade vaccines.
Research leader Associate Professor Stuart Turville said viruses in the genetically developed cells replicate four times faster than through any other technique.
This included $15.2bn and $28.5bn Australian dollars the federal government recently announced in infrastructure spending and tax measures.
â[The Australian infrastructure spending] is a lot. That is one-and-a-half times the normal level of investment in transport,â says the Grattan Instituteâs transport and cities program director Marion Terrill.
âThe budget took us back to transport megaprojects. And thatâs after a short break in the past budget where the biggest single contribution from the commonwealth was $750m. In this budget the commonwealth put in $2bn or more into three whopping great big projects.â
The budget included $2bn for an intermodal terminal in Melbourne, $2.6bn for the Anzac Highway in South Australia and $2bn for the Great Western Highway in NSW.
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Recent growth in Vietnamese exports is partly being helped by economic recovery in the US. Photo: Le Toan
The rapid pace of vaccinations and massive scale of fiscal stimulus spending will push the global economy, including the American economy, to recover strongly, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said in its Economic Outlook Interim Report on strengthening the recovery released a few weeks ago.
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‘Supercharged’ cells help scientists analyse SARS-CoV-2 variants faster
In this video, watch how the SARS-CoV-2 virus takes over cells by ‘melting’ them into each other.
The team looked at hundreds of different cells to identify ones that would allow the virus to replicate as quickly and effectively as possible. Photo: Richard Freeman / UNSW
Researchers at UNSW Sydney’s Kirby Institute have developed cells that allow them to test the effect of SARS-CoV-2 faster than anywhere else in the world.
The team, led by Associate Professor Stuart Turville, use these genetically “supercharged” cells to quickly understand the dynamics of different variants of the virus, to test their ability to evade vaccines, and to inform the public health response in real time.