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 ...

Fact checked by Nick Blackmer The COVID-19 variant XEC, which has been spreading across Europe, now accounts for 17% of cases ...

Researchers at Kumamoto University have made a significant breakthrough in the fight against COVID-19 with the development of ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the last few years, the SARS-CoV-2 virus, responsible for COVID-19, has undergone significant changes, evolving from the original wild-type strains to the highly transmissible Omicron variant.

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 ...