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WHO classifies India variant as being of global concern

WHO classifies India’s ‘double mutant’ Covid a ‘variant of concern’ as its origin country buckles under the world’s worst coronavirus outbreak WHO said Monday that the variant that emerged in India is ‘of concern’  The variant, B.1.617 has three sublineages and is often called the ‘double mutant’ because it has two mutations that help it […]

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GARFIELD classifies disease-relevant changes in the genome

Researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) have developed a new approach to understand the functional effects of genetic variations associated with a disease, even if they aren’t located in a gene. Using this approach could help scientists uncover previously unknown mechanisms that control gene activity and determine whether cell […]