SARS-CoV-2 and its new variants: a comprehensive review on nanotechnological application insights into potential approachesSARS-CoV-2COVID-19DRUG designMORTALITYDRUG developmentTREATMENT effectivenessPLANT virusesSARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) spreads and develops quickly worldwide as a new global crisis which...
Editorial: Factors Driving New Variants of SARS-CoV-2, Immune Escape, and Resistance to Antiviral Treatments as the End of the COVID-19 Pandemic is Declared Dinah V. Parums1C* DOI: 10.12659/MSM.942960Med Sci Monit 2023; 29:e942960...
XEC is a new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic. The Public Health Agency of Canada says it is a hybrid of Omicron subvariants KS. 1.1 and KP. 3.3. In an email Friday, a spokesperson for the World Health Organization said XEC is variant that is bein...
This review has highlighted the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 variants and the vaccine efficacy. Currently, various vaccine candidates are undergoing several phases of development. Their efficacy still needs to check for newly emerged variants. We have focused on the evolution, multiple mutants, waves of...
Recently, several genetic variants of SARS-CoV-2 have been identified that are either suspected or confirmed to have mutations that increase the contagiousness of the virus above the current circulating variants1,2,3,4. For a short while after the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in humans, it was ...
“Mutations in the spike protein can affect transmission and the severity of the disease but can also affect vaccine efficacy.” Le Roch What is Omicron and how is it different from other variants? All viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, thevirusthat causes COVID-19, mutate over time.Omicron is...
SARS-CoV-2COVID-19 pandemicDIAGNOSTIC use of polymerase chain reactionSARS-CoV-2 Omicron variantGENE targetingEarly detection of increased infections or new variants of SARS-CoV-2 is critical for public health response. To determine whether cycle threshold (Ct) data from PCR...
Two variants of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causescovid-19have combined their genomes to form aheavily mutated hybrid versionof the virus. The “recombination” event was discovered in a virus sample in California, provoking warnings that we may be poised to enter a ...
The Omicron variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus appeared at the end of 2021 and have marked genetic differences from the ancestral SARS-CoV-2. The many, distinct mutations in their infection machinery have enabled them to escape from antibodies elicited from the original series of vaccines, from ...
The VarSkip (for Variant Skip) Short primers have been designed at NEB to reduce the impact of SARS-CoV-2 variants on amplification and provide improved performance, including with the Omicron variant. VarSkip Short v2 primer pools generate ~550bp amplicons. Please see the FAQ section and the...