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Old 9th November 2021, 11:33 AM   #290
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Not a new variant but explaining how delta is so infectious

https://www.science.org/content/arti...et_cid=3986069

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That discovery, published today in Science, is “a big deal,” says Michael Summers, a structural biologist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County—not just because it helps explain Delta’s ravages. The new system, developed by Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna of the University of California (UC), Berkeley, and her colleagues, is a powerful tool for understanding current SARS-CoV-2 variants and exploring how future variants might affect the pandemic, he says. “The system she has developed allows you to look at any mutation and its influence on key parts of viral replication. … That can now be studied in a much easier way by a lot more scientists.”
This sounds as though it could be a very useful tool for other diseases as well
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