New technology uncovers mechanism affecting generation of new COVID variants

New technology uncovers mechanism affecting generation of new COVID variants

The SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID has the unsettling ability of often generating variants of itself. Other viruses also mutate, but as SARS-CoV-2 quickly spread throughout the entire human population during the pandemic, killing millions, the virus’ dynamic evolution posed a serious problem: it repeatedly challenged our bodies’ immune response and hindered the process of getting updated vaccines ready.

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