The complex mutation of covid-19 Coronaviruses — like all viruses — change small parts of their genetic code all the time. "Viruses mutate naturally as part of their life cycle," says Ewan Harrison, scientific project manager for the COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium , a new project that tracks the virus in the United Kingdom. Like flu and measles, the coronavirus is an RNA virus . It's a microscopic package of genetic instructions bundled in a protein shell. When a virus infects a person, the string of genetic instructions enables the virus to spread by telling it how to replicate once it enters a cell. The virus makes copies of itself and pushes them out to other cells in the body. Infectious doses of the virus can be coughed out in droplets and inhaled by others. Inevitably, viruses "make mistakes in their genomes"(genetic coding mistakes) as they copy themselves, says Harrison. Those changes
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Mythsvs reality about COVID-19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F3KHb_1bkw The novel coronavirus continues to infect people around the world, news articles and social media posts about the outbreak continue to spread online. Unfortunately, this relentless flood of information can make it difficult to separate fact from fiction — and during a viral outbreak, rumors and misinformation can be dangerous. Following are some myths which may or may not be true related to sudden outbreak of corona virus. Ordering or buying products shipped from China will make a person sick. The answer is false. Researchers are studying the new coronavirus to learn more about how it infects people. As of this writing, scientists note that most viruses like this one do not stay alive for very long on surfaces, so it is not likely you would get COVID-19 from a
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Corona virus Vaccine in Development As the new coronavirus was becoming a global pandemic, researchers began working on a vaccine. It’s no quick fix — it can take up to a year and a half for a vaccine for the virus, which causes the disease COVID-19, just to move from the lab to human trials. Unfortunately even in this advanced technology world we are still unable to manufacture vaccines of many past epidemic or pandemic disease.( read article of pandemic disease in history and deadly virus in history to know more about vaccines which are developed or not developed for the disease yet.) Will we see the vaccine of covid-19 in future? It all depend on funding. Currently scientist are working on making vaccines for corona virus with new technology which is mRNA-based vaccines that have the ability to elicit potent immune responses against infectious diseases and certain cancers. Whereas the Traditional vaccines stimulate the production of antibodies via challenges with puri