Stacker consulted research from Yale Medical School and the World Health Organization to find how SARS-CoV-2 has evolved ...

Northeastern University professors of pharmacy say the updated COVID-19 vaccines available for fall and winter of 2024 are a ...

Omicron has such a long list of mutations that it was described by one scientist as "horrific", while another told me it was the worst variant they'd seen. It has now been detected in more than 30 ...

“These mutations have a chance to spread further,” Dr. Kasson says. So far, there have been four major variants: Alpha, Beta, Delta, and Omicron. Some of these contain multiple ...

China and infected again by an omicron variant. Those antibodies may bind to other parts of the spike protein, away from the site of the mutation, thereby preventing a JN.1 infection, says Andreano.

Quantum mechanical modeling allowed the team to develop an initial set of predictions about the role of mutations on infectivity and immune response evasion of Omicron and other SARS-CoV-2 variants ...

Over the last few years, the SARS-CoV-2 virus, responsible for COVID-19, has undergone significant changes, evolving from the ...

Instead, it arose with its own set of new mutations from a different branch of the SARS-CoV-2 tree. The same held true for all the Greek-named variants, up to omicron. It's likely that most of ...

Australia has detected its first cases of the highly transmissible XEC "recombinant" variant — a mix of two previous Omicron variants called KS 1.1 and KP 3.3. Researchers have been working to ...

Not yet published data shows that “children under 5 had the highest infection rate with Omicron” compared to older children and adults in all age groups, she said. Genetic mutation protects ...

Some mutations can make it spread faster ... 2 variant, known as one of the FLiRT subtypes of omicron. The Novavax booster targets the JN.1 strain. Both of those strains were dominant earlier ...