Antibody cocktails could steer viruses into evolutionary dead ends
When a virus mutates, the world usually finds out the hard way.
When a virus mutates, the world usually finds out the hard way.
The short version
- Variants of influenza and SARS-CoV-2 can slip past vaccines and antibody drugs before scientists fully understand what has changed.
- A new study from Harvard's Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) suggests the hard way may not be inevitable.
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What happened
Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: When a virus mutates, the world usually finds out the hard way. In a paper published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a team led by Eugene Shakhnovich, Roy G.
Why it matters
Gordon Professor of Chemistry, and Vaibhav Mohanty, an MD/Ph.D. student at the Harvard Kenneth C.
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