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Researchers try to identify COVID-19 mutations before they become variants
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2:11Now PlayingA group of researchers at Colorado University in Boulder are working both smarter and harder than COVID-19 and its variants.
This comes as COVID continues to mutate and replicate – even infecting those who are vaccinated.
"Our idea was essentially to find the escape mutations kind of systematically and kind of be able to do it in a high frequent manner,” said Emily Rhodes, CU Boulder Chemical and Biological Engineering graduate student.
Basically, predicting viral variants before they arise. Every COVID mutation has a new spike protein creating an escape mutation. An escape mutation essentially allows the virus to escape the body's means of fighting it.
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