How to know if a virus variant can escape vaccine protection
Amid new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 emerging across the world, experts explain how to ascertain whether a virus strain can escape the protection provided by a vaccine
COVID-19: Top scientists explain how India can tackle a possible third wave
India has to scale up testing, isolating and sequencing along with vaccination and decentralized critical care to face large-scale future outbreaks, say experts
Each city has a unique fingerprint of microorganisms: Global study
The research identified new viruses and bacteria and found that each city has a unique fingerprint of the microbial world within it
Neutralising antibodies can be marker of COVID-19 vaccine efficacy
A new research shows that even a small quantity of the neutralising antibodies indicates a strong efficacy of the vaccine
What preserved human tissue from World War I reveals about 1918 flu pandemic
Researchers were able to decipher changes to the virus that happened between the first and second waves of the epidemic over 100 years ago
Stone structures found in Saudi Arabia predate Pyramids and Stonehenge
These structures named mustatil, the Arabic word for rectangle, are more than 7,000 years old. Over 1000 mustatil structures exist in an area of 200,000 square kilometers
COVID-19 vaccine: Cuba hopeful about indigenous vaccine in Phase 3 trial
In previous trials, the Soberana 02 vaccine candidate generated antibody response in about 80% of the people who were administered two doses
2I/Borisov, the first interstellar comet to have visited our solar system
Comets like 2I/Borisov, which have not passed close to the sun, are of special interest because the material they are made up of is the same as when the solar system had been formed