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Posted on February 11, 2021

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…

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Posted on February 11, 2021

Conspiracy theories about SARS-CoV-2 virus origin put to rest

Genome sequence data and lab origin While many scientists had dismissed the lab-origin theory, in mid-February 2020, a group of 27 prominent scientists from outside China went a step ahead and “strongly…

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Posted on February 10, 2021February 15, 2021

India to meet WHO trans fat limit a year in advance

While trans fat is naturally present in red meat and dairy products, the focus is on restricting the industrially produced trans fat used solely to prolong the shelf life of…

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Posted on February 7, 2021February 8, 2021

NIBMG team find why variant with D614G mutation spread faster in Europe, U.S. but not East Asia

Scientists at the National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, Kalyani have found the biological mechanism behind the significantly faster spread of the variant with the D614G mutation in Europe and North America but not in East Asia.

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Posted on February 6, 2021

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…

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Posted on February 5, 2021February 6, 2021

Oxford vaccine is protective against the U.K. variant, preprint says

The results were posted in a preprint server. Preprints are yet to be peer-reviewed and published in scientific journals. No studies were carried out to examine the efficacy of the…

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Posted on February 4, 2021February 4, 2021

Causality assessment of COVID-19 vaccine deaths will be made public, says National AEFI Committee advisor

On January 31, when 11 deaths of health-care and frontline workers were reported from across the country following administration of Serum Institute’s Covishield vaccine nearly two-dozen scientists and others wrote…

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Posted on February 3, 2021February 3, 2021

Updated efficacy results underline the benefits of delaying second dose of Oxford vaccine

The data in the preprint show that vaccine efficacy was high when the interval between the two doses was two months and continued to increase with a longer dose interval.…

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