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COVID-19 variants reveal evolution’s power to rearm pandemic – The Globe and Mail
‘It has a lot of tricks up its sleeve that we didn’t necessarily expect,’ one researcher says
A 3D illustration of a SARS-CoV-2 virus particle.
Nick Woolridge/Biomedical Communication
Anyone curious to see evolution playing out in real time need look no further than NextStrain.org, a website that depicts the ever-sprouting family trees of different pathogens residing in the human population.
Maintained by a collective of computational biologists, NextStrain is currently displaying more than 3,500 genetically distinct branches of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Those are just…
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