Covaxin offers protection against double mutant (B.1.617) variant
A preprint of the study carried out by ICMR and Bharat Biotech researchers has been posted in biorXiv. Preprints are yet to be peer-reviewed and published in medical journals. So…
Category: South African variant B.1.351
What is driving the second wave in India?
The rate of increase in cases in India during March has been faster than at any other time during the pandemic, which is also reflected in the modelling studies by…
Proving variant-specific efficacy will be a logistic nightmare, very expensive: Gagandeep Kang
What are the main challenges in developing and testing booster vaccine doses to address the new variants? Each variant (and many more beyond the first three that have been widely…
Moderna, Pfizer vaccines neutralise variants encoding mutations E484K or N501Y but with less potency
The results were published in the journal Nature. Both Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines showed no significant difference in neutralising activity. Individuals immunized with either Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines produce closely…
ACTREC’s automated tool makes SARS-CoV-2 genome mutation analysis easy
The IPD tool has been already designed to perform analysis of diverse genomic datasets, which came handy while analysing diverse data sets of SARS-CoV-2 genome that have been uploaded to the…
