Call for new COVID-19 origins
A joint China-World Health Organization (WHO) study into COVID-19 has provided no credible answers about how the pandemic began, and
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As WHO highlights COVID animal origins, China wildlife crackdown needs more teeth – experts
DAVID STANWAY CHINA and its neighbours must not only crack down on wildlife trade but also shut legal loopholes that
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How the coronavirus mutates and what this means for the future of COVID-19
The rates of mutation (how often one of these changes occurs) vary between the different types of viruses, and between
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World faces around 4,000 COVID-19 variants as researchers explore mixed vaccine shots
GUY FAULCONBRIDGE and ALISTAIR SMOUT THE world faces around 4,000 variants of the virus that causes COVID-19, prompting a race
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Results from Novavax vaccine trials in the UK and South Africa differ: why, and does it matter?
To fast track the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a broad range of candidate COVID-19 vaccines are being investigated. The
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Pfizer vaccine only slightly less effective against key S.African mutations
PFIZER Inc and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine appeared to lose only a small bit of effectiveness against an engineered virus with
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South African scientists who discovered new COVID-19 variant share what they know
LATE last year the Network for Genomic Surveillance in South Africa (NGS-SA) led by the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing
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The new coronavirus variant in Britain: How worrying is it?
KATE KELLAND A new variant of the pandemic SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is spreading rapidly in Britain and prompting high levels of
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Coronavirus new variant – genomics researcher answers key questions
What’s the significance of this new discovery? The Conversation asked Lucy van Dorp, a microbial genomics researcher and an expert
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COVID-19 vaccine trials in Africa: what’s promising, and what’s problematic
SCIENTISTS are working around the clock to develop and test vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19. Experts agree
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