Prama Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata A study carried out at Houston Methodist Hospital and UT Austin involving around 5000 COVID-19 patients found that genetic mutations are getting accumulated in the causative virus which is making it more contagious. Located in the spike protein, the mutation is called D614G according to the peer-reviewed journal Ambio. Random genetic […]
Sagnik Nag, Amity University Kolkata The emergence of an exceedingly pathogenic human Coronavirus in the Middle East has sparked novel concern in human coronaviruses around the world. Standing today we know all the precautions that are to be followed during this pandemic situation. The general symptoms about the outbreak of the Covid -19, but the […]
Husna, Amity University Kolkata As the world is waiting anxiously for a powerful and effective vaccine against covid-19, researchers are also trying to identify how coronavirus attacks the body to stop its devastating impact. One such possible way has been discovered in a recent study by researchers of John Hopkins University. This can be done […]
Devyani Goswami, Amity University Kolkata It is about a year now that the SARS-CoV-2 has disturbed and changed the daily lifestyle of people all over the world. A vaccine against this virus is what we are hoping for, but that too comes with a drawback that it won’t be able to provide a long-term immunity […]
Prama Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata Severity and death from Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) are associated with the older population; testing such vaccine candidates is important to prevent infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). A phase 1, open-label trial with an escalated dose of messenger RNA vaccine, mRNA-1273, which encodes the stabilized prefusion […]
