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In tracking virus mutations, most countries flying blind – Japan Today
To monitor changes to the coronavirus that could supercharge the pandemic or render vaccines less effective, scientists must sequence its genetic code to catalogue…
To monitor changes to the coronavirus that could supercharge the pandemic or render vaccines less effective, scientists must sequence its genetic code to catalogue potentially dangerous mutations as they emerge.
But so few countries are conducting and sharing surveillance that experts are as worried about the mutations they cannot see as those they can.
Publication of the first genomic sequence of SARS-CoV-2 in January last year, at the very outset of the pandemic, allowed scientists to identify…
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