The ability of the virus to mutate can potentially limit the effectiveness of the created vaccines, said the researchers.
The new type of coronavirus that caused a global epidemic, mutated. This was announced by American scientists from National laboratories at Los Alamos.
The researchers, based on data from organizations that collects information on COVID-19 and influenza, analyzed several thousand followers of the genome of the coronavirus. It turned out that the infection has already acquired 14 mutations.
One of them, as the researchers note, makes it easy to connect the virus to the cells of the human body. In addition, this mutation may neutralize antibodies, lipolysis, immune response.
The researchers argue that the ability of coronavirus to mutate may limit the effectiveness of the newly created vaccine.
According to the Johns Hopkins University, the number of people infected with coronavirus in the world has exceeded 3.6 million people died from infection more than 257 thousand patients.
