Medical Xpress September 9, 2024
For the past three years, Corewell Health researchers have been studying the genetic code of the virus that causes COVID-19 to better understand how it is changing and how to avoid another pandemic. Much of the world’s focus has been on the development of vaccines to prevent the spread of the virus; however, vaccines primarily target the portion of the virus that constantly changes, requiring vaccines to be regularly updated
The new research, published in the journal Microorganisms, highlights that it is the unchanging parts of the virus that may provide reliable targets for new treatment strategies.
The key findings of the study, which evaluated COVID-19 samples from western areas of Michigan, were:
- Most of the critical parts of...
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