Coronavirus
Coronavirus
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8 strains of the coronavirus are circling the globe. Here's what clues they're giving scientists.
At least eight strains of the coronavirus are making their way around the globe, creating a trail of death and disease that scientists are tracking by their genetic footprints.
While much is unknown, hidden in the virus's unique microscopic fragments are clues to the origins of its original strain, how it behaves as it mutates and which strains are turning into conflagrations while others are dying out thanks to quarantine measures.
Huddled in once bustling and now almost empty labs, researchers who oversaw dozens of projects are instead focused on one goal: tracking the current strains of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that cause the illness COVID-19.
- While the maps are fun, they can also be “little dangerous” said Andersen. The trees showing the evolution of the virus are complex and it’s difficult even forkingsteven
- experts to draw conclusions from them." I've seen papers suggesting that interpreting them as trees is dangerous. the virus mutates back on itself creatingkingsteven
- loops: a network not a tree... a lot of the studies determining time scale and origin may be skewed because they use a tree like approachkingsteven