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Covid-19 project receives government funding to expand globally Supercomputing facilities set up to track the spread and evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic have received £1.2M in government funding to expand globally. The grant is part of a major £213M investment by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to upgrade the UK's scientific infrastructure. The new funding will enable the CLIMB COVID-19 project, led by the University of Birmingham and Cardiff University, to carry out significant upgrades to its computational equipment, enabling it to process and store genomic data on a global scale. CL...

University of Birmingham: Covid-19 genome sequencing project gets £1.2M in government funding Supercomputing facilities set up to track the spread and evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic have received £1.2M in government funding to expand globally. The grant is part of a major £213M investment by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to upgrade the UK’s scientific infrastructure. The new funding will enable the CLIMB COVID-19 project, led by the University of Birmingham and Cardiff University, to carry out significant upgrades to its computational equipment, enabling it to process and stor...

A new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19, is thought to be driving increased transmission of the disease in parts of the UK.

Updated Dec 23, 2020 | 10:17 IST The new strain has been named VUI-202012/01 (the first "Variant Under Investigation" in December 2020) and is defined by a set of 17 changes or mutations. The new strain of coronavirus likely evolved in the UK  |  Photo Credit: iStock Images New Delhi: The new strain of the Covid-19 virus which is said to be more infectious is likely to have evolved in the UK. Nick Loman, Professor of Microbial Genomics and Bio information at the University of Birmingham, told a briefing by the Science Media Centre on December 15 that the var...

Prof. Ravindra Gupta of Cambridge University, one of the top scientists working on the worrying new mutant strain of the coronavirus, has said: “This virus is potentially on a pathway for vaccine escape, it has taken the first couple of steps towards that.” The BBC, to whom Gupta gave an interview, explained: “Vaccine escape happens when the virus changes so it dodges the full effect of the vaccine and continues to infect people. This may be the most concerning element of what is happening with the virus. This variant is just the latest to show the virus is continuing to adapt as it inf...