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Friday, November 13, 2020

Mutation Achilles heel for vaccines to target – study

 

Mutation that made corona virus so infectious may also be Achilles heel for vaccines to target – study

13 Nov, 2020 11:05 

A new study has found that the very mutation which allowed SARS-CoV-2 to spread so far and wide among the human population may also be an Achilles heel for future vaccines to target.

One of the latest strains of coronavirus, and currently the most common in the world, is called D614G. 

Through tests on hamsters, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered that this particular strain replicates faster and spreads more easily than the original variant, which emerged in China at the beginning of the pandemic.

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