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Variants of Coronavirus: What We Know So Far

Coronaviruses are RNA viruses belonging to coronaviridae family. These viruses display remarkably high rates of errors during replication due to lack of proofreading nuclease activity of their polymerases....

20C-US: New Coronavirus Variant in the USA

Researchers at Southern Illinois University have reported a new variant of SARS COV-2 Virus in the USA.   According to reports published on preprint server which is yet to...

COVID-19, Immunity & Honey: Recent Advances in Understanding Medicinal Properties of Manuka Honey

Anti-viral properties of manuka honey are due to the presence of methylglyoxal (MG), an arginine directed glycating agent that modifies sites specifically present in...

COVID-19: ‘Neutralising Antibody’ Trials Begins in the UK

University College London Hospitals (UCLH) has announced neutralising antibody trial against COVID-19. The announcement on 25 December 2020 says ‘’UCLH doses first patient in...

New Strains of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus responsible for COVID-19): Could ‘Neutralising Antibodies’ Approach be Answer to Rapid Mutation?

Several new strains of the virus have emerged since the pandemic began. New variants were reported as early as February 2020. The current variant...

‘Bradykinin Hypothesis’ Explains the Exaggerated Inflammatory Response in COVID-19

A novel mechanism to explain the different unrelated symptoms of COVID-19 has come to light by exploiting the second fastest Supercomputer in the world...

Russia Registers World’s First Vaccine against COVID-19: Can We Have the Safe Vaccine for Global Use Before the End of 2021? 

There are reports of Russia registering world’s first vaccine against novel corona virus while the phase 3 trial of this vaccine is still in progress. Developed jointly...

mRNA-1273: Moderna Inc.’s mRNA Vaccine Against Novel Coronavirus Shows Positive Results

A biotech firm, Moderna, Inc. has announced that ‘mRNA-1273’, their mRNA vaccine against novel coronavirus has shown positive results in the phase 1 clinical...

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