A 13-year-old girl in British Columbia who was hospitalized with bird flu for several weeks late last year harbored a mutated version of the virus, according to a report published this week in the New ...
Chinese scientists studying the 2018–2020 Ebola outbreak in Congo found a mutation, GP-V75A, that made the virus spread faster and infect cells more efficiently. The variant replaced earlier strains ...
The N501Y mutation makes a virus more contagious. "All viruses have a receptor that allows them to stick to a cell, and that's the beginning of the infection process," Moore explained. "And in some ...